Jennifer Martin
Directing
Biography
Jennifer Lauren Martin is a London-based writer/director and artist-filmmaker. Lauren Martin's interdisciplinary practice spans fine art, film, and writing, focusing on interpersonal belonging. Their characters frequently undergo a journey in which psychological tension and drama manifest as physical effects. Bodies, in their breakdowns, surface what has been felt and suppressed. In this way, the body becomes another actor or writer in the narrative.
Known For
A young woman is surprised to see her chronically ill sister has a new life.
Better
Bodies of water are intervened upon, moved, disrupted and exploited. Labouring bodies experience similar pressures from the same forces of power and extraction. Distant communities – Northern England and Jamaica – share similar histories of manipulation and oppression whose record is kept in the living memory of its waterways. But water, like people, can find a way to exert its own will.
A River Holds a Perfect Memory
An eager couple, Charlotte and Myles, are interrogated by two Home Office agents about their spousal visa application. They endure a series of assessments that become progressively performative to attest to the legitimacy and acceptability of their relationship.
TEETH
A frenetic exploration of contemporary Marseille. The soundtrack, a hyperreal fiction, is paired with the languid footage of the city, creating a sensory overload that mirrors the city itself.