Kym sits outdoors on a bright pink armchair placed in front of dense green foliage. Her face and upper body are hidden behind a large X-ray image of her broken foot. Her pale white legs are visible, with one leg crossed over the other. She is wearing a medical walking boot on the right foot and a white sneaker on the left. Photo taken in 2025.
Kym McDaniel is an experimental filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist working across fields of moving image, choreography, and disability studies. Her embodiment as a dancer living with chronic pain informs her relationship to time, the body, and movement in her work.
Her research is rooted in feminist, Crip, and queer addresses to the self and culture. She has recently screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance, Antimatter, ICDOCS, The Whitney Humanities Center, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, and at UnionDocs, among others.
She has an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an Advanced Certificate in Disability Studies from the City University of New York.
She and Lemon (her cat) live in Ohio. She teaches film/video as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University.