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Katiana is a Black American multidisciplinary filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland. Her films have been screened internationally in both theatrical and gallery spaces and she is known for her work as a cinematographer, director, and editor. Thematically, her image-making is rooted in temporal explorations of grief and memoria—its stickiness and porosity.
As an educator, her pedagogical concerns reach past form and mode to focus on the collective affect of filmmaking. How do we create together and in service of what? Throughout her educational career, she has served as a curriculum writer and instructor at Baltimore School of the Arts' Film & Visual Storytelling department and as an associate lecturer/adjunct professor within Kingston University’s filmmaking department, Goldsmiths’ Media & Communication Department, and Towson University's Electronic Film & Media department. Outside of permanent positions, she has facilitated film-based workshops focusing on cinematography and visual storytelling.
Katiana holds an MFA (2024 from The Royal College of Art), a BFA (2020 from Syracuse University's Film Production Program), and an AA in Film Studies. While at the Royal College of Art, she developed AXIOM24, a kinofuturist manifesto that formalizes her approach to filmmaking in pursuit of a truly collaborative and radically supportive industry. Through AXIOM24, she seeks to encourage filmmakers to actively question industry practices and to use circularly collaborative filmmaking practices to mend and care for practitioners, both contemporary and future.
She has recieved recognition as a semi-finalist for the 2022 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize, a fellow of the 2023 Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, & an artist resident at The House of Koko in 2024/2025.
She is currently based in London.
captured via tintype photography | Shayla Marshall, 2024
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