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Jard Lerebours
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Biography
Jard Lerebours (he/they) is a community oriented queer Jamaican-Haitian filmmaker, writer and curator who creates exploratory pieces in service of venerating his ancestors and putting image to theory. He grew up surrounded by a diverse community of Black and Latinx folks in Central Islip, NY and draws inspiration from his West Indian roots. Jard’s practice straddles the worlds of cinema and video art. They approach filmmaking as a conversation between friends and family guided by their loving West Indian upbringing. As a curator, Jard’s first program “Samkofa” in collaboration with Film Diary NYC featured genre defying and experimental work by Black filmmakers. His last program “the land of wood and water” with cinemóvil nyc provided a much needed space to showcase work by Jamaican filmmakers. Most recently, they served as an NYC pod moderator for the last iteration of The Flaherty Film Seminar centered around Queer World-Mending. Jard’s film work includes the Babylon Red Trilogy which consists of the short films Pandrog, Coconut and Zion. The trilogy explores gender, masculinity, Rastafarianism, Buddhism and notions of home. His work has been showcased internationally by Atlanta Film Festival, Berlin Short Film Festival, Indie Memphis Film Festival, NFFTY, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Southern Fried Queer Pride, Out on Film, VAEFF and others.
Filmography Movies
Production
Pandrog
Pandrog is an exploration of the subversiveness of the gender binary within the confines of Blackness. It is about Black people escaping the terms and identities created by western imperialism.
Pandrog
Pandrog is an exploration of the subversiveness of the gender binary within the confines of Blackness. It is about Black people escaping the terms and identities created by western imperialism.
Coconut
To his mother's homeland of Jamaica, a young man returns to pay last respects to the grandmother he called Two Mommy. “Coconut,” directed by Jard Lerebours, is a self-proclaimed “public declaration of love,” an experimental documentary and poetic remembrance of a matriarch and caretaker.
Zion
Explores themes of Rastafarianism and Buddhist enlightenment to locate a space for Black joy. -Cinemóvil NYC
Coconut
To his mother's homeland of Jamaica, a young man returns to pay last respects to the grandmother he called Two Mommy. “Coconut,” directed by Jard Lerebours, is a self-proclaimed “public declaration of love,” an experimental documentary and poetic remembrance of a matriarch and caretaker.
Coconut
To his mother's homeland of Jamaica, a young man returns to pay last respects to the grandmother he called Two Mommy. “Coconut,” directed by Jard Lerebours, is a self-proclaimed “public declaration of love,” an experimental documentary and poetic remembrance of a matriarch and caretaker.
Zion
Explores themes of Rastafarianism and Buddhist enlightenment to locate a space for Black joy. -Cinemóvil NYC
Zion
Explores themes of Rastafarianism and Buddhist enlightenment to locate a space for Black joy. -Cinemóvil NYC
Don't Be Desperate
When an imaginative and anxious Broadway hopeful receives life-changing news, she is forced to confront her deepest desires and worst fears.
Rap World Day
A low-res, high-vibe document of cinephilia in motion. Three friends set out across NYC on January 11, the date Conner O'Malley and Danny Scharar’s 2024 film Rap World takes place, to celebrate its screening and the shared delirium of filmgoing as lifestyle. Shot on camcorder and steeped in homage, the film blurs diary, homage, and fan tribute with cameos from James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Conner O'Malley. Cinephilia as community, ritual, and handheld devotion.