Jennifer Rainsford

Crystal Beacon

BIOGRAPHIE

Jennifer Rainsford is a visual artist and director based in Stockholm. Her short films and installations have been shown at festivals such as Oberhausen, Berlinale, Rotterdam and CPH:DOX. She has also worked as a journalist and documentary filmmaker at the cult TV-show Tracks on Arte in Paris. She is a long term collaborator and video maker for composers such Shida Shahabi, Koki Nakano and Teho Teardo. She has been a resident at Cite des Arts Internationale Paris. Her short When I Die the World Ends and the Moving Sweden financed middle-length film Birds in Space premiered at Gothenburg IFF in 2017 and 2018, whilst her last sci-fi shortfilm Lake on fire was selected for the main competition “Startsladden” at Gothenburg IFF 2020. As a participant of the prestigious Chicken and Egg Pictures program 2020 she has finished the art documentary Stories from the Debris, premiering 2022 as All Of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars, together with the production company Momento Film. With Fasad she is working on Mayflies, her first fiction feature and the documentary Home (aka Artemis – an astronaut’s dream), both supported by the Swedish Film Institute and The Swedish Arts Grant Committee. 2022 – All Of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars (aka Stories from the Debris, feature length documentary and cross media project (premiere Visions du Reel 2022, competition) 2020 – Lake on Fire, Short Fiction 2018 – Birds in Space, Middle-Length Fiction 2017 – When I die the World Ends, Short Fiction 2012 – Mvua Farasi (Rain Horse) 23 min fiction with documentary elements. Co-direction as Crystal Beacon, with Rut Karin Zettergren and Lena Bergendahl. 2011 – Transnational Practices 11 min video 2011 – Applied Theories of Expanding Minds 29 min short film. Co-direction as Crystal Beacon, with Rut Karin Zettergren and Lena Bergendahl. Special Mention at Oberhausen International Film Festival. 2010 – Our Global Behaviour is Psychopathic 14 min short film. Co-direction with Virlani Hallberg. Screened at Berlinale, Oberhausen International Film Festival. 2009 – For the Liberation of Men 5 min short film as part of Dirty Diaries, Screened at CPH:DOX, Visions du reel.

FILMOGRAPHIE