I'm a South Carolina-born editor, film critic, and programmer based in Brooklyn. In 2021, I earned my doctorate from Birkbeck, University of London, and I specialize in nonfiction and horror cinema, with a particular emphasis on the visual narratives of Black women filmmakers. My work has appeared in Sight & Sound, The New York Times, Film Comment, The Guardian, among many other publications.
I am an editor of Metrograph's online journal and biannual print magazine.
Get in touch: kelliweston7@gmail.com
Selected Work
Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (The Nation)
Mati Diop’s Atlantics (MUBI Notebook)
Interview with actress Lily Gladstone (Seen Journal)
Alice Diop’s Saint Omer (Film Comment)
Mati Diop’s Dahomey (Sight & Sound)
I Heard it Through the Grapevine / James Baldwin Centennial (The Nation)
Ousmane Sembene Centennial (The New York Times)
Bloodlines: A Genealogy of Black Horror Cinema (Sight & Sound)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Studies in Gender and Sexuality)
Cannes Interview with filmmaker Jia Zhangke (Metrograph Journal)
Edward Yang and His Gang (The Metrograph)