Nick Tyson | Filmmaker, Editor, Producer
Nick Tyson is a producer, filmmaker, and editor based between Paris and New York City. His filmmaking practice explores queer embodiment and sensorial experience across physical and digital landscapes, engaging with forms of experimental cinema, observational documentary, and sensory ethnography.
His work has screened at festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, IndieLisboa, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, BFI Flare, and É Tudo Verdade, as well as at Anthology Film Archives (NY) and La Clef Cinéma (Paris).
He has a masters in documentary cinema and visual anthropology from the Université Paris-Nanterre and a bachelors from Columbia University where he studied film and anthropology. He received training in film production from Prague Film School and Yale University, and was part of the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio artist residency from 2019 through 2020.
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TRACING UTOPIA
A journey to the Queer dimension. Across space. Across time. Queer teens dream the future. A war machine is constructed. Love will win. They will change the world.
Produced as part of the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio 2019-2020.
Premiered at the 2021 International Film Festival Rotterdam as part of the Ammodo Tiger Shorts Competition.
Read moreDirected by
Nick Tyson and Catarina de Sousa
Starring Ash, Chase, Jay, Mars and Raphael
26 min. 11 sec.
Documentary, Video
2021
PARIS S’EFFUILLE
A group of burlesque performers embarks on the construction of a new show. Between their off-stage lives and rehearsals, layers of self are added, mixed and removed. Movement, colors, textures and scents invoke new forms of embodiment.
Created as part of the masters in Documentary Cinema and Visual Anthropology at the Université Paris Nanterre.
Directed by
Nick Tyson
Starring Matamore Occhio, Eden Weiss, le Vicomte Harbourg, Saint Sebastian, Lolita Laze, Azuka Eilhart and Vesper Quinn
Documentary, Video
2023
SOLACE
Your breath is the wind through the trees. Branches and limbs, intertwined.
16mm black and white, hand-processed and edited at L’Etna, Montreuil, France.
Directed by
Nick Tyson and Garnet Henderson
4 min.
Experimental, Dance, 16mm
2025
COMME UNE REINE
Framed within a small apartment in the suburbs of Paris, a transformation takes shape from Adam to Aïcha. She is evoked through memories, labor, gestures and sounds across a queer landscape of domestic intimacy. The apparition begins and ends. Always with the promise of a future return.
Premiered in 2022 at La Clef Cinema, Paris, France.
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Directed by
Nick Tyson
Starring Adam Farza and Aïcha Lachish
20 min. 47 sec.
Documentary, Video
2022
ADDRESS
Co-created with choreographer and dancer Garnet Henderson, Address is a dance film that embodies and challenges assumptions about women, their bodies, and what women should do with their bodies. It explores the consequences of living and performing under these expectations, and the difference between being looked at and being seen.
The film premiered at the Estrogenius Festival in New York in March 2020.Directed by
Nick Tyson and Garnet Henderson
Dance, Video
2020