Directing

Tristan Turner

Born 1997-05-13 · Asheville, North Carolina

Tristan Turner grew up in Asheville, NC. From an early age Tristan had a fascination with cinema. During his time at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Tristan developed a passion for experimental cinema. Tristan Turner and his new film work aims to combine the aesthetics of the past and current day in order to interrogate medium specificity, aesthetic limits, and futurism. Tristan has a fondness for 16mm film as well as digital imagery. In his work he blends the two until they merge into something both familiar and alien. Philosophically, Tristan believes that cinema is the most boundless platform of human expression. Everything is cinema.

Acting credits

5.7

After hitting a breaking point, Hannah's inner thoughts physicalize into a monstrous creature that threatens to upend her life.

Appendage

2023

Behind the camera

A man desires to be a painter.

I Fed it Napalm

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Swannanoan Silt is a two-channel live projection performance examining how communities in WNC cope and rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The projected 16mm motion pictures and slide photography engage directly with the hurricane’s invisible ecological impact, as the film was processed in the contaminated Swannanoa and French Broad Rivers. This work strives to highlight the perseverance, radical empathy, and dedication to one another in our mountain communities despite such adversity.

Swannanoan Silt

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A collaboration between Tristan Turner and David Matthew Johnson

Acid Threnody

2025

Featuring those who are and have been close to me.

What I Saw in the Rye Grass

2022

A Painted Film

2021