Biography
Kera is an Adjunct Faculty in Cinema and Television Arts and teaches undergraduate courses in Cinema and Television Foundations and Editing and Post-Production.
She is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in film, video, live broadcast and installation. Her work has screened and exhibited at festivals and spaces around the world including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas (France), Anthology Film Archives, and UnionDocs (New York City), Echo Park Film Center, and The Film and Video Poetry Symposium (Los Angeles), Microlights (Milwaukee), La lumière collective (Montreal), Cellular Cinema (Minneapolis), Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Chicago Underground Film Festival (all Chicago). Kera has been an artist in residence at The Luminary (St. Louis), ACRE (Steuben, WI), and Culturia (Berlin) and a researcher in residence at Signal Culture (Owego, NY). Her movie Stones for Thunder received the City of Big Shoulders Award at the 2019 Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival and a Jurors' Award at the 2020 That One Film Festival. Her debut feature, Make a Distinction, won a Best of the Festival (Jury Award) at the 2021 Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival and another Jury Award at the 2021 Chicago Underground Film Festival. Additionally, Kera is a Founding Co-Director of ACRE TV (an artist-made live-streaming television network).
She has a graduate degree in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an undergraduate degree in Human Services specializing in Expressive Arts Therapies from Lesley University and the Art Institute of Boston.
Instructional Areas
Cinema and Television Production, Editing and Post-Production
Creative Practice and Research Interests
Documentary and Experimental Cinema, Performing with a Camera, Cinematic Space, Editing as Choreography, Essay Films
Degrees
B.A., Human Services & AIB/Visual Studies Lesley University 2007
M.F.A., Moving Image The University of Illinois at Chicago 2013