Monument

About the director

Jeremy Drummond is an artist, filmmaker, field recorder, and film/video programmer who teaches experimental film, video art, and alternative media at the University of Richmond. Rooted in single-channel film and video, Drummond's work is positioned between documentary and experimental media and extends across photography, sound, and installation. At the core of his practice is interdisciplinary research and a commitment to sustained, first-person fieldwork that explores cultural, historical, and socio-political relationships between people and place.

Drummond's work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and festivals worldwide and his films/videos have received awards such as the National Film Board of Canada Award at the Images Festival (Toronto), Best Experimental Video at the Reeling: Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, the People's Choice Award at the New Forms Festival (Vancouver), and the No Budget Award at the Cinematexas Festival of International Film & Video (Austin). He has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, National Film Board of Canada, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. His work has been featured and/or reviewed in magazines, journals, and newspapers including Art Papers, Cabinet, Canadian Architect, Frieze, NRC Handelsblad, Prefix Photo, SEAMUS, the Washington Post, and The Wire: Adventures in Sound & Music.

Drummond's films and videos are distributed internationally by LIMA (Amsterdam), Videographe (Montreal), Video Pool Inc. (Winnipeg), Vtape (Toronto) and The Film-maker’s Cooperative/The New American Cinema Group (NYC). His printed works are/have been available from Art Metropole (Toronto), Printed Matter Inc. (NYC), and the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC).

In addition to his solo work, Drummond works extensively with artist David Poolman as Never Met A Stranger -- a collaborative platform for the production of art and experimental media, a publisher of vernacular arts and culture, and an ongoing archive of field recordings, interviews, and documentary resources that collectively explore relationships between perception and representation, industry and the environment, and landscape and culture throughout central Appalachia and the rural North American south.

Drummond is the organizer and curator of the Frames of Reference annual program of artists' film and video. With support from t he University of Richmond's Department of Art & Art History, University Museums, and School of Arts & Sciences; Frames of Reference showcases artists and artworks that resist conventions and ideologies of mainstream media; explore creative, innovative approaches to narrative and experiments in time-based media; and embrace unique viewpoints, perspectives, or frames of reference. Participating filmmakers include: Angelo Madsen Minax, JJJJJerome Ellis, Jesse McLean, Steve Reinke, Deborah Stratman, JP Sniadecki, Kevin Jerome Everson, Brett Story, Tiffany Sia, Sky Hopinka, and others.

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