LENDL TELLINGTON

I am a filmmaker and visual artist working across documentary, narrative film, photography, and installation.

My practice moves fluidly from intimate family archives to museum exhibitions to brand campaigns—driven by a belief that a single frame can hold entire worlds, generations of stories, and those fleeting moments that somehow feel eternal.

Dancing Despite

Music Video

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Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela is a writer, poet, and musician whose work is concerned with little-told histories, Mexican American migration and incarceration.

Dancing Despite nods to the necessity to live life regardless of the circumstances at hand. This music video frames the song’s mantra around the artist’s own motherhood. Filmed in a slow motion single take highlighting the gravity of even the most quotidian gestures.

…that’s why He made momma

feature documentary • art installation

(in post-production)

As they realize they could lose their matriarch's home, a brother and sister turn the camera on their great-grandmother and her nine descendants in order to reimagine their family’s legacy.

As the siblings sift through memories and history, they chronicle the ingenuity of generational single black motherhood and grapple with its inheritance.

The Age of All Women:

The Becoming of Younousse Seye

film • art catalogue

(in production)

Following the career of Younousse Seye, Senegal’s first female contemporary artist, this project consists of a film, art catalogue and exhibition which examine the contingencies that govern the remembrance of Black women artists.