Jody Stillwater 周青海 is an Oakland-based filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the poetics of time, memory, and transfiguration. With a cultural background that is Chinese and Bavarian-American, he identifies as mixed, and his films often navigate the emotional spaces between cultures, technologies, and identities, articulating global and historical systems through personal, sensory storytelling.
A three-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker and co-founder of Yanasa Creative Group, Jody works at the intersection of cinema, dance, and digital art — creating lyrical, hybrid works where tenderness and alienation coexist in multispectral dissonance. His projects have been showcased at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Hammer Museum, the de Young Museum, YBCA, Mutek, Gray Area, and the Honolulu Museum of Art.
Jody has served as a guest lecturer at Stanford University and UC Berkeley and has been commissioned for films by Google and Meta, speaking on experimental storytelling and the evolving language of hybrid cinema.