BIO
Puck Lo (she/they) writes and makes films inspired by utopian politics and dystopian science fiction. As Research Director for Community Justice Exchange, a prison abolitionist organization, she spends her days dreaming up schemes to end state violence. They live in Lenapehoking/ Brooklyn, NY.
Puck has spent 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’s work refutes the idea of objectivity to collaboratively dismantle systems of state, economic, racialized and gendered violence and imagine new conditions of possibility. Their report for Community Justice Exchange, 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 work explores diasporas, carceral and liberatory states and structures, political memory and its embodiment. Her award-winning films challenge what it means to be racialized and legible as human, and the failure of liberal reform to dismantle systems that regenerate eugenic and Western imperialist modes of knowledge. Their films have screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and DOC NYC.
Puck’s latest film project, Unfinished, is a collectively-reenacted queer revisionist history of race treason, anti-colonial resistance, fugitivity and land in the US desert West during the late 1800s and early 1900s.