DISTRIBUTION

FILM DIRECTION AND PRODUCTION

Videographer/Editor, University of Pennsylvania's Multimedia Services (2013–Present)

Director/Videographer/Editor, on-stage projections and documentation for Bulrusher, a play by Eisa Davis for The Penn Theatre Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA (2023)

Director/Videographer/Editor, on-stage projections and documentation for Eurydice, a play by Sarah Ruhl for The Penn Theatre Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA (2022)

Videographer/Editor, documented the world premiere of Polia & Blastema, a “sci-fi opera film” directed by E. Elias Merhige, hosted by The Philadelphia Film Society’s and Opera Philadelphia’s “Opera on Film” series, Philadelphia, PA (2022)

Videographer/Editor, 23rd Annual Moviate Underground Film Festival, a promo for the event at the Midtown Cinema, Harrisburg, PA (2022).

Videographer/Editor, The Kitchen Sink, a play by Tom Wells for The Penn Theatre Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA (2022)

Director, CINEMA, Shot on 16mm B/W film, Cinema gives an alternate history of the medium as a secret investigation of time (2020).

Videographer/Editor, Just What Leaks, a Philadelphia Writer/Firefighter describes the influence the city has on his novels and short stories (2020)

Videographer/Editor, documentation of Everyman for The Annenberg Center's Theatre Arts Program (2020)

Director/Videographer/Editor, series of five promotional videos for University of Pennsylvania's Language Department (2019)

Videographer/Editor, Quintessentially Science Fiction, an interview with Eugenio Calabi for Stony Brook University (2019)

Videographer/Editor, The Other 9-11, Memories: Geography of a Decade, Chile 1973-1983, Penn Latin American and Latino Studies Program (2019)

Videographer/Editor, documentation of Of Government for The Annenberg Center's Theatre Arts Program (2019)

Videographer/Editor, documentation of Becket Shorts: Four Plays by Samuel Beckett for The Annenberg Center's Theatre Arts Program (2018)

Editor, promotional video for Autumn Sonata: An Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective for Lightbox Film Center, Philadelphia, PA (2018)

Videographer, documentation of WXPN’s Zydeco Crossroads performance by Rosie Ledet (2014)

Videographer, documentation of WXPN’s 25th Anniversary of their children’s program, Kids’ Corner (2013)

Director, 3rd & Arch, a site-specific installation projected onto the side of a building in Old City, Philadelphia, PA (2013)

Videographer, documentation of performances at WXPN’s Mississippi Blues Project at Philadelphia’s World Café (2012)

Director, Six + Six, an installation consisting of two, 4 min, color video loops, each shown in a separate room, based on the myth of Persephone (2010)

Director, In, 11 min, 16mm color and b/w film about a couple who are obsessed with a little, black box (2009)

Director, Testing, 18 min, 16mm color film portraying a man trying to “keep his head” in the midst of questionable circumstances (2004)

Production Assistant, A Day at Rhoads, video profile of the arts program at a West Philadelphia elementary school (2002)

Videographer, documentation of creation of monument for Little Big Horn National Park by John Collins and Chris Collins (2001)

Director, Six Insects, 22 min, 16mm b/w film depicting the disturbing similarity between human and insect behavior (2000)

Production Assistant, A Chronicle of Corpses, ARM Cinema (1999)

EXHIBITIONS AND FILM SCREENINGS

Just What Leaks shown virtually at Media Film Festival (April 9th - 18th, 2020)

Street Trees drawings exhibited at The Philadelphia Sketch Club's Annual Domenic DiStefano Memorial Works on Paper, Philadelphia, PA (January 2-24, 2015)

Testing and Six Insects screened at Escape the Night, a group art exhibition at Pterodactyl, Philadelphia PA (September 6 and October 4, 2014)

Street Trees, an exhibition of drawings, film and site-specific installation at International House, Philadelphia, PA (July 10 - September 30, 2014)

The Tell-Tale Heart, a graphic novel, displayed at Night Walk With Me, a group show at Salon 1522, Philadelphia, PA (April 11 - May 30, 2014)

In, Testing, and Six Insects, screened at Yes Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (May 10- June 1, 2013)

3rd & Arch, screened outdoors in Old City, Philadelphia, PA (January 4 and September 13, 2013)

Six + Six, screened at International House, Philadelphia, PA (October 28 – December 30, 2010)

In, screened at International House, Philadelphia, PA (November 2009) and Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (January – March, 2011)

Multiple Eye: Ted Knighton’s Moving Images, February 21-March 9, 2007, International House, Philadelphia, PA

Testing, screened at Philadelphia Film Festival (April 2006) and Ann Arbor Film Festival (March 2006)

Six Insects, screened at open video exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (2002) and Philadelphia Fringe Festival (2001)

RECOGNITION AND AWARDS

Cinema, MosfilmFest 2021:

Best Experimental Film

Cinema, Film Invasion Los Angeles 2021:

Grand Jury Prize - Best Short Film - Experimental

Grand Jury Prize - Outstanding Cinematography - Experimental

Filmmakers Award - Outstanding Director - Experimental - Ted Knighton

Testing, Philadelphia Film Festival April 2006:

Award for Best Experimental Film

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