Jard

Jard (He/They) is a NY-based Queer-Black magician in the tradition of Djibril Diop Mambéty. Their practice straddles the worlds of autofiction, cinema and video art. Jard approaches filmmaking as a conversation between friends and family guided by their communal West Indian upbringing. He is an active member of the Meerkat Media Artist Collective, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and Millennium Film Workshop’s Programming Committee.

Jard’s film work includes the Babylon Red Trilogy which consists of the short films Pandrog, Coconut and Zion. The trilogy explores gender, masculinity, Rastafarianism, Buddhism and notions of home. His films have been showcased internationally by Atlanta Film Festival, New York African Film Festival, Third Horizon, Film Diary NYC, Indie Memphis Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Uppsala International Short Film Festival and Out on Film.

Jard's written work has been published in Office Magazine, Forgotten Lands, Crater Magazine, 032C, Fortunately Mag and AFM. In his free time, Jard enjoys hating on white supremacy, hissing his teeth and learning Haitian recipes. At Bemis, Jard will work on himself.