Kym McDaniel (she/her) is an experimental filmmaker, multidisciplinary collaborator, choreographer, curator, and educator. Her films have recently screened in solo and two-person screenings at UnionDocs – Center for Documentary Art (Queens, NY), Arts + Literature Lab (Madison, WI) , Cellular Cinema (Minneapolis, MN) , Rhizome DC (Washington, DC), and the Society for Disability Studies Conference, as well as in group exhibitions at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance, Experiments in Cinema, Antimatter, and the Whitney Humanities Center (Yale University), among others.

Her film/video research is influenced by her embodiment as a dancer with chronic pain and non-normative relationships to time, her body, and dance. Their embodiment as a queer femme and engagement in disability culture informs her gaze and current practices.

She has been awarded grants from the New York State Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Mary L. Nohl Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and was an Artist in Residence (2023-2024) at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, UT). She has recently performed in the stacks at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, among bees at the Lynden Sculpture Garden (Milwaukee, WI), and on 16mm and Super 8 film for independent films and music videos.

As a curator, she has directed film/video festivals, panels, and screenings focused on the body, movement, disability, and gesture. She was lead curator for the 2024 Screendance Cultural Tour at the Salt Lake Film Society, a dance film festival in collaboration with the Tanner Humanities Center and College of Fine Arts at the University of Utah. She also founded EXPS/SLC, a monthly experimental film screening series based in Salt Lake City.