Artist

Kelly O'Brien

Kelly O’Brien is an independent filmmaker living in Toronto. Her short diary films have screened internationally and online for NY Times Op-Docs. Her live documentary performance/family slideshow, Postings From Home, based on over a decade’s worth of Facebook posts, has been featured at documentary festivals throughout Canada. She’s currently adapting it into a feature film with the NFB. She received an MFA in film production at York University.

Artist Code: 903

Videography

The Voice of Weather

2025, 04:40 minutes, colour, English

Most of the Time I Can Just Be

2025, 04:21 minutes, Black & White, English

All the Beauty in the World

2023, 03:21 minutes, Black & White, English

How Does Life Live?

2017, 03:30 minutes, Black & White, English

Walk With Me

2016, 04:30 minutes, colour, English

Softening

2012, 39:00 minutes, colour/B&W, English

SIX

2011, 03:00 minutes, colour, English

Don’t Leave Me

2011, 18:25 minutes, colour, English

Stars

2005, 02:30 minutes, B&W, English

Stars

2005, 02:30 minutes, B&W, English

OLD LADY

2002, 06:40 minutes, colour, English

Blissfully Ignorant

2001, 06:00 minutes, B&W, English

SUCK

2000, 04:00 minutes, B&W, English

After Morning

1999, 05:00 minutes, B&W, English

Triple

1997, 03:30 minutes, B&W, English

First Comes Love

1997, 13:00 minutes, B&W, English

Suspicious©

1996, 05:15 minutes, B&W, English

Nice

1995, 09:20 minutes, colour, English

Critical Writing

Creative Super 8 Films: Starting From Scratch
The Hague: Embassy of Canada, 2003.
Brutally Honest: Spencer Nakasako in conversation with Kelly O'Brien
by Kelly O'Brien. Fuse, May 2002, v. 25, no. 2.