Laura Nasmyth, she/her
- Born in the UK in 1984, the writer/director worked for many years as a production designer in TV and film, before moving into directing in 2015 and has since produced work, ranging from short experimental projects to full length narrative features. Currently based in Marseille (FR).

In 2017 she realised her debut feature 8:30, which received theatrical distribution in 2018 and was curated on MUBI for the month of June 2019. She is a Film Independent Directing Lab 2020, Berlinale Talents 2020 and Torino Film 2019 and Series 2024 Lab Fellow, board member for the Feminist Director’s Association, **dieRegisseur*innen** and part of the Austrian Cinema ratings committee, Prädikatisierungskomitee.

Her work focuses largely on questioning perceptions of reality, and taking everyday situations out of context to portray the ironies of modern life. Her debut, 8:30 is a satirical gag about urban dislocation, capitalism, and Google Street View, the weirdness of identikit suburbia, and the blurring of lines between reality and fiction in the digital age.

She currently has a short in distribution, and a feature and drama series in development.

FILMOGRAPHY

8 : 3 0 - Feature Film, 70min, 2017

about a door-to-door salesman, who finds himself stranded in suburbia in an infinite loop.

EXT. - Short Film, 25min, 2023

about a figure transitioning between an actual and an imagined reality.

LE LIQUIDE - Experimental Film, 30min, 2019

inspired by Jacques Deray’s ‘La Piscine’.

BORING - Music Video, 2025

Buy, moodswings

HEADS, BODIES AND TAILS - Video, 2015

Four figures become one being in this short video based on the children‘s drawing game

1:1 - Video - Full Frame Film Festival, 2012

Site-specific cinema installation

10 HOURS OUT THE WINDOW - 2011

Video Installation for Vienna Contemporary Art Fair 2011