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 Lydia Cornett (she/her) is a

filmmaker, composer and artist.

Her work explores the contours of

labor, language and artistic expression

across nonfiction and experimental forms. 

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Selected Works

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Tessitura

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Blending historical overview with character portraits, Tessitura explores the entangled ways that voice, character, and gender are continuously reformulated in opera by those who contend with these connections daily. 

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Yves & Variation

A New York City doorman wears many hats—

father, art curator, and violinist—as he works tirelessly to give back to his community in Haiti.

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Bug Farm

Four distinct women in Central Florida bond over crickets, superworms and cockroaches on an insect farm in the small town of LaBelle.

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Fleshwork

At a butcher shop in Jeromesville, Ohio, four meat processors situate their labor within their own minds and bodies.

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