Gillian Waldo is originally from Baltimore, Maryland, based in Chicago, and makes short nonfiction works on 16mm. Her work is interested in the intersection of history and the built world and how decisions regarding infrastructure, policy, and labor have informed the environments we live in. Her work has screened at Prismatic Ground, Indie Lisboa, Open City Documentary Festival, UnionDocs, Cosmic Rays, Rooftop Films, Arquiteturas, Grain Urbain, and ICDOCS, among other festivals. She is the recipient of a 2026 Creative Capital Award for a project on the life of architectural photographer Richard Nickel.
