My name is Jonathan Kennedy. I am a filmmaker and photographer from St. John’s, Newfoundland, currently living in Hamilton, Ontario.

My work focuses on what Mark Fisher called the weird and the eerie. My influences include surrealism, post-punk, skateboarding, and pro wrestling.

I studied political science and sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 2014 I won the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts & Letters David C. Saxon Humanitarian Essay Award for an essay I wrote on the relationship between privacy, the surveillance state and the concept of “world peace.”

In 2016 I was selected to join 50 other filmmakers as part of Abbas Kiarostami’s Auteur Workshop at the EICTV film school in Cuba.

That same year my experimental short film Haunted received the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts & Letters Award for Best Digital Media. (Listen to me talk about the film and my approach to filmmaking on the WYRD SIGNAL podcast.)

I used to host a podcast about the tv show LOST called GET LOST alongside my friends and occasional collaborators Erin Mick and Sarah Blackmore but they got too busy with grad school to keep it up.