Kathleen Bryson

Alaskan director Kathleen Bryson co-directed her first feature film in 2008, the dark satire “The Viva Voce Virus”, for which she also wrote the screenplay. Her second feature, also co-directed with (...) Kimmo Möykky (and written again by Kathleen), is the experimental psychological horror film “Baked Alaska” (2019). Receiving a postgraduate certificate in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Performing Arts conservatory in 1995, an MA in Independent Film and Video from the London College of Printing in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Anthropology from University College London in 2017, Kathleen is a longtime practitioner of DIY no-budget/low-budget cinema. In addition to two produced feature screenplays (and four in the waiting room), she has had three fiction novels published (the most recent is “The Stagtress”, to be published by Fugue State Press in 2019) and over 30 short stories and poems in publications ranging from Magma to Aesthetica. Always centring the visual experience, whether it be filmic, image-rich text or stage, Kathleen’s other career as a painter has resulted in 10 solo shows, the tenth of which is called “Once Upon a Spacetime”, and which will be exhibited at London’s Royal Institution in March 2019. Many of Kathleen’s previously created wilderness-themed artworks were used to give “Baked Alaska” its unique visual aesthetic. Technically Kathleen’s day job is that of an biological anthropologist, whereby she scientifically explores the same themes of hybridity, animality, empathy, outsiderness, wilderness, feminism, hallucinations, fairy tales and bisexuality as in her films, novels, roles and paintings.