Documentary Shorts with Courtney Sell

A prolific documentarian and experimental film artist with nearly 80 films under his belt, Sell’s work has been featured in Newsweek, Filmmaker Magazine, indieWIRE, Time Out NY, Vice and on the Ellen Show as well as distributed worldwide by several labels. Beginning his career at 18 after dropping out of film school during the first semester, Sell began to travel the country with his Hi8 camera in pursuit of his dream of becoming a filmmaker. During those years, as he covered almost every state in the country aiming his camera at everything that inspired him, the people and places he met, Sell’s body of work grew at a rapid pace. Sleeping in parks, on the floors of friends' apartments and editing each film on a broken laptop wherever he could, these films soon hit the micro-film festival circuit and so began his career. His work has been screened around the globe, been the recipient of numerous awards and archived at the NY Film-Makers Coop as well as the Philosophical Research Society. Working in numerous genres, he has directed acclaimed music videos for Xiu Xiu, The Gentleman Losers, and most recently for the Swedish electronic group Priest. Later this year, an entire collection of Sell’s documentary work will be officially released on all platforms. Sell is currently in post production on a feature documentary based on acclaimed Los Angeles poet Mandy Kahn.