Kyle Henry
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For over thirty years, director Kyle Henry has brought audiences into empathetic contact with human beings in crisis and on the brink of transformation, with both fiction and non-fiction films. His works have screened at Sundance, Cannes Directors Fortnight, SXSW and many other festivals, and he is a Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab fellow as an editor.
For 30 years, director Kyle Henry has traversed film forms to bring authentic stories of interrelationship to audiences at fests, theaters, and streaming platforms. His fictions use documentary methods to devise stories based on research, creating deeper authenticity. His documentaries use fictional techniques to portray interior worlds of subjective memory and thought. From his SXSW premiered documentary University Inc.'s exploration of toxic higher-ed corporatization and American Cowboy’s sensitive stereotype toppling portrayal of a gay rodeo champ; to Sundance and Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight premiered fiction feature Room’s psychic journey of a working class woman in post-9/11 America, Fourplay's vivid investigation of sexual intimacy, to Chicago set Rogers Park's “eye for the intimate, dividend-paying gesture” (NYTimes) that is “brimming with universal truths” (Chicago Sun-Times), his deep mining of human experience has the purposeful goal of facilitating community discussion, as he tours with all of his works to converse directly with audiences in a variety of settings. Time Passages is his re-emergence as a documentarian after 20 years making mostly fiction films.
