Kamila Kuc

Education
* Certificate in the Foundations of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, London (2023)
* MFA Experimental Film, Kingston University, London (2016)
* PhD Film Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London (2013)
* MA Film Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London (2009)
* BA (Hons) Visual Theories, University of East London (2007)
* BA Art History, University of Wroclaw (Poland) and The Open University London (2006)

Artist Bio
I am a Polish-born filmmaker, based between London and Seattle. My work unfolds at the intersection of performance and documentary, testimony and dream to explore ecologies of memory, ancestral wisdom, and embodied resistance. I am drawn to exploring how we relate to one another - emotionally, historically, politically - through gestures of trust, repair, and shared presence that emerge in moments of vulnerability and exchange. Rooted in hybrid nonfiction forms, media poetics and Slavic mythology, my films investigate the entanglements of identity, memory, and survival. I use film to excavate counter-histories and create intimate, embodied encounters that activate memory as a force of resistance and connection.

My most recent short, I Was There (2025), won Best Experimental Film at the New Jersey International Film Festival. Her Plot of Blue Sky (2023) premiered at the 27th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival and received the 2024 BAFTSS Practice Research Award and the Jean Rouch Award at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival. My films have been shown in over 20 countries and includes screenings at Videoex, BFI London Film Festival, ICA London, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Hawai’i International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Oberhausen, Anthology Film Archives, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, among many others. My work has been extensively reviewed by a leading documentary film scholar, Dara Waldron in the 10th edition of Found Footage Magazine (October 2024).

I am the founder of Dark Spring Studio, a London-based production company supporting artist moving image work that lives between forms and invites new ways of sensing and inhabiting the world.