Casey Carter

Casey Carter is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary designer whose work engages nonfiction storytelling in film and video, photography, data visualization, and cartography. His work centers on themes of governmentality, geography, environmentalism, and personal subjectivities. His short films, Two Boys and a Dream (2023), Two Prisons (2020), and The Rights of Nature (2019), have screened at festivals including Revolutions Per Minute, SF Shorts, Salem, Ashland Independent, and Hong Kong Film Art. He holds a B.S. in Physics and B.S. in Photography from Middle Tennessee State University and a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan. His work has been supported through grants and fellowships from institutions including Sundance Documentary Film Program, IDA, UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Marble House Project, Monson Arts, The Redford Center, SFFILM, Flies Collective, and others. He also serves as the project director for Maya Lin’s What Is Missing? Foundation, which seeks to raise awareness about habitat and species loss through science based artworks, as a multi-sited memorial to the 6th extinction. He is the director, cinematographer, and editor of his first feature film, To Use a Mountain.