Micaela Durand is a longtime collaborator with artist Daniel Chew. Their films investigate intimacy and connection, two feelings that are increasingly difficult to discern and cultivate in our technologically mediated present. Their work has been shown in the U.S. and abroad including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMA PS1, White Columns, 47 Canal, MOCA LA, The Shed, BAFICI, Le Cinema Club, and e-flux. She was the former director of the publishing press Badlands Unlimited.
While at MacDowell, she worked on a new film titled, 38. Her writing has been published in Texte zur Kunst and PIN-UP. She was a recipient of the Jerome Artist Fellowship for 2021-2022.
