Kevin T. Allen

Kevin T. Allen is a filmmaker and sound-artist whose work straddles the territory between ethnographic and experimental practice.

He has exhibited at numerous venues, including MoMA, Ethnographic Terminalia, Flaherty NYC, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Berlin Directors Lounge and Ann Arbor Film Festival. His sound work has been featured at museums and festivals, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Third Coast International Audio Festival and Deep Wireless Festival of Radio Art. He has made ethnographically imbued films in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, the Wild West, and the migrant farm worker community of Immokalee, Florida. He is an assistant professor of filmmaking at The New School and teaches sound at Rutgers University. ​

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This hour: the piano. But not just as a musical instrument. The piano as a spiritual healer, as a symptom in a grand delusion, as a man's obsession, and as a beloved friend, put out to pasture.