Kaley Clements

Kaley Clements received an MFA in Experimental Documentary Arts from Duke University. He works in documentary filmmaking, photography, archiving, and community collaboration projects. His research focuses on where social conflict, climate change, and the loss of diversification converge under the power structures of the globalized economy. His collaborations engage community partners in the production process to allow for agency in the ways their stories are shared. His teaching interests align with his research. He engages students in his process by taking them to do fieldwork. His films and photography are screened, published, and exhibited internationally.

His community documentary project สุขภาวะ // Sukhaphawa received a 2025 Patricia R. Zimmermann Fellowship. The fellowship supports ongoing screenings and documentary production with the Thai/Lanna community of Sop Kok to share how the community is handling heavy metal contamination from unregulated transboundary rare earth mining in war-torn Myanmar.

His other recent publications include the film Pace of the Mekong @ 1KM (2025). It has been publicly screened with vested communities in the Mekong Water Basin and at academic institutes. His recent photography Typologie – The Camping Tent (2025) has been published in print. He collaborated on with student Junyi Yu. The project will be exhibited with their video work in London and Milan.

Kaley Clements 在杜克大学获得实验纪录艺术（Experimental Documentary Arts）硕士学位（MFA）。他从事纪录片制作、摄影、档案整理以及社区合作项目。他的研究重点在于社会冲突、气候变化和多样性丧失如何在全球化经济的权力结构下交汇。他的合作项目通过让社区参与制作过程，赋予他们对自身故事分享方式的主体性。他的教学兴趣与研究方向一致，通过带领学生开展实地考察，将其研究方法融入教学之中。他的纪录片和摄影作品曾在国际范围内展映、发表和展出。

他的社区纪录片项目 สุขภาวะ // Sukhaphawa 获得了 2025 年 Patricia R. Zimmermann Fellowship 奖，该奖项支持对 Sop Kok 的泰国/兰纳社区进行的持续放映和纪录片制作，展示该社区如何应对来自战乱的缅甸边境无管制跨界稀土开采所导致的重金属污染问题。

Clements其他近期发表的作品包括纪录片《湄公河的节奏 @ 1KM》（Pace of the Mekong @ 1KM, 2025），该作品已在湄公河流域相关社区以及学术研究机构中公开放映。他近期的摄影作品《类型学——帐篷》（Typologie – The Camping Tent, 2025）已以印刷形式发表，该项目由他与学生 Junyi Yu 合作完成，并将与其配套录像作品一同在伦敦和米兰展出。