LENDL TELLINGTON
Lendl Tellington is a filmmaker and visual artist who tinkers with time like music — remixing the line between prescribed histories and collective memory.
Working across cinema, photography, and installation, his practice illuminates the ingenious ways communities forge their own systems of value beyond what institutions recognize or control.
Dancing Despite
Music Video
A single, unbroken take. A mother. A dance. A quiet act of resistance that says everything words cannot.
…that's why He made momma
Documentary Film and Installation
A feature documentary and immersive installation examining how one Black family reimagines legacy, love, and inheritance after losing the only home they've ever known.
The Age of All Women
Documentary Film
Senegal's first female contemporary artist, Younousse Seye, hasn't had an exhibition in 30 years — or a film release in 50. When the art world suddenly rediscovers her, she must reckon with the structures that govern how Black women are remembered.
→ Link to film website
Dos Noemis
Short Documentary
Two women who share a name united migrant farmworkers in rural New York and built the state's first Farmworkers Union. A portrait of collective power, commissioned by The LIFT Fund.
→ Watch on Vimeo
Glou Glou Magazine
Publication & Creative Direction
A wine publication that refuses to take itself seriously — trading elitism for word-of-mouth storytelling and the accessibility of a children's book. As Creative Director, I worked alongside a designer and wine importer building the brand's identity from the ground up resulting in a distinct yet unpretentious visual language.
→ Visit Glou Glou
Photography
Portraiture. Travel. Commercial.
Studio portraits, on-location documentary photography,
and e-commerce and product
APPEARANCES & ACCLAIM
Back to School: Photo Exhibition, Gravy Studio 2015
The Agitators– Photo Exhibition, 5th Annual BlackStar Film Festival | August 2016
Documentary Lab Fellow, Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund at Johns Hopkins University|October 2016
2017 Grant Recipient, Ruby Artist Grant, Deustch Foundation
2020 Grant Recipient, HBO/IFP True Stories Funding Initiative
2020 Grant Recipient, Philadelphia Contemporary Velocity Fund
2020-2023 Resident Artist, Creative Alliance |Baltimore, MD
2021 Fellow, BAVC Mediamaker Fellowship
2021 Emerging Filmmaker Grant Recipient- Independence Public Media Foundation
Semifinalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2022, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
2022–2024 Fellow, Firelight Media Documentary Lab
2026 Artist Residency, Sacatar Institute | Bahia, Brazil