“Take a walk at night, and walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.”
- Pauline Oliveros, Recipes for Listening
Lindsay Skedgell is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, writer, and reference librarian with a degree in cultural anthropology. She is passionate in helping to share stories of chosen families, climate and agriculture, and intergenerational threads and archives. Deep and attentive listening is essential to her documentary practice.
Lindsay is a freelance journalist and works as a reference librarian at her local library, where she runs a community writing group and the library’s Oral History Project, documenting the stories of town residents. She believes that everyday life composes the most essential threads of history.
Her short form documentary work, which she has directed and edited, has been screened at the Margaret Mead Film Festival and was nominated for a 2019 regional Emmy.
When free, you can find her designing and curating the eco-magazine Heel & Hive and playing folk music with her band, Mother Juniper.
