Jard Lerebours is a New York-based Queer-Black magician in the tradition of Djibril Diop Mambéty. His practice straddles the worlds of 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 and Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective.

As a film programmer, Jard’s first program, Samkofa, in collaboration with Film Diary NYC, featured genre-defying and experimental work by Black filmmakers. Their latest program, Samkofa 2, shown at Millenium Film Workshop centred work around Black kinship and community.

Jard’s work has been showcased internationally at BAM, DCTV, Maysles Documentary Center, Third Horizon Film Festival, Indie Memphis Film Festival, Uppsala Short Film Festival and Film Diary NYC. He is currently in development for Wavebuilder, an afro-surrealist hybrid feature that explores Black masculinity and Black beauty standards through the dying art of 360 waves.

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Artist Code: 2172