Lily Baldwin is a multifaceted artist, filmmaker, and performer renowned for her captivating and intricate narrative expression. Based in NYC, Berlin, and LA, she combines her profound love of dance and film to craft visceral stories with stylized dreamscapes.
Her works have been showcased at all major film festivals, including Sundance, SXSW, Berlinale, and the Venice Biennale, as well as exhibited globally at prominent galleries and museums such as Lincoln Center, the V&A Museum, Miami Art Basel, and Carnegie Hall. Her shorts are featured on The Criterion Channel, Netflix, Amazon, Filmmaker Magazine, and Nowness, among others.
Baldwin's psychological thriller Swallowed premiered in the omnibus feature "Collective: Unconscious". Her previous work includes "Sleepover La", "A Juice Box Afternoon", and "Sea Meadow", which had an Academy-qualifying theatrical run. As a dancer, she performed on the world tour of David Byrne and Brian Eno's album "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today", with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.
Lily co-created and performed in "Terrain: A Docu-Dream", an expanded cinema installation that combines dance, documentary, 360-degree immersive video, virtual interactivity, and spatial design. She also co-directed Through You, an award-winning VR installation that The New York Times praised for its unique ability to captivate the viewer.
Independent Magazine has named her one of "10 Filmmakers to Watch", while Short of the Week has compared her work to David Lynch. The New York Times has noted that her "work has a visceral power similar to Cronenberg's".
Baldwin has been a juror for the Tribeca Film Festival, taught and lectured at numerous universities, and is a Sundance Institute New Frontier fellow, a Nantucket Screenwriters Colony Fellow, and a member of the Guild of Future Architects. She will publish her short-fiction piece "Kaleidecopia" in their upcoming "20 Decades Of 2020" book, based on a Futurist Writers' Room series.
Lily is the creator and host of the podcast "Stories Of The Stalked", a genre-bending true-crime series that merges memoir with journalism and immersive soundscape. She is also directing an upcoming feature-length narrative thriller, an episodic sci-fi documentary series, and reimagining her artistic position within the art world.
Additionally, based on her recent experience living in and out of the disability world and insights related to stillness and pain, Baldwin was named a Sundance Institute Interdisciplinary Program Grantee (supported by the MacArthur Foundation) for her forthcoming documentary feature, "Chronicle Of Hip", in which she is the subject and performer. She is the founder of "Stop Stalking Us", a nonprofit that unites people impacted by the dangerous, often invisible, crime of stalking.
