BIO
Puck Lo (she/they) writes and makes films inspired by utopian politics and dystopian science fiction. By day they work as an abolitionist researcher and study history to help communities defeat white supremacy and state violence. They live in NYC, on the contemporary and ancestral homelands of the Canarsie, Munsee Lenape, and Wappinger people.
Puck has spent more than two decades participating in leftist social movements and came of age organizing independent media centers and massive protests from NYC to Hong Kong. After running a worker-run, international daily radio news show, Puck graduated from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and completed a MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University. Today, Puck makes work to challenge what it means to be racialized and legible as human in a world where structural inequality continues to be rationalized as natural. Their report From Data Criminalization to Prison Abolition examines data creation, data analysis and prediction processes as methodologies as well as sites for racial social control.
Puck’s art explores diaspora knowledges, carceral and liberatory geographies, queer archival practices, and embodiment as political memory. Their award-winning films have screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and DOC NYC.
Puck has two films in the works: Unfinished is a feature-length, collectively-reenacted revisionist history of race treason, anti-colonial resistance, fugitivity, land and queerness in the US desert West during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Another short is inspired by water, erosion, and the trans-ness of nature.
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