Biography
Sniadecki was born in 1979 in Michigan. He became interested in China through reading Chinese philosophy and first traveled there in 1999. He attended Grand Valley State University for his undergraduate studies, completing his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and communications in 2002. He began his graduate studies at Harvard University in 2005, where he studied under Lucien Castaing-Taylor and joined the Sensory Ethnography Lab when it was started in 2006. His short film ''Songhua'', shot along the Songhua River a year after the 2005 Jilin chemical plant explosions, Jilin chemical plant explosions, documents the relationship between local residents and the river. His 2008 film ''Demolition'' documents migrant laborers working at a demolition site in Chengdu. Sniadecki co-directed ''Foreign Parts'' (2010) with Véréna Paravel, whose 2008 film ''7 Queens'' informed their work. It chronicles an auto junkyard in Willets Point, Queens. His 2012 film ''People's Park'', consisting of one long tracking shot, captures different types of activities at People's Park (Chengdu), People's Park in Chengdu. Sniadecki co-directed ''El mar la mar'' (2017) with Joshua Bonnetta. The film looks at the physical traces of human activity in the Sonoran Desert near the Mexico–United States border. Sniadecki was awarded a List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2017, Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. His 2020 film ''A Shape of Things to Come'', co-directed with Lisa Malloy, follows a man named Sundog who appears in ''El mar la mar''. It includes thermographic footage from Jason De León of the Undocumented Migration Project.References
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