We are currently seeking a creative and collaborative filmmaker to help tell artists’ stories as Creative Time’s Leonhardt Cassullo Video Fellow.
 
The Video Fellow is central to Creative Time’s communication and programming efforts, helping us document our nearly 50-year history, growing our audience and teasing out compelling narratives that connect these audiences with complex, technical, and radical art practices. The fellowship is a 12-month part-time position. Applicants should be based in New York City or the immediate area as the Video Fellow is expected to be readily available for shoots within the city, and to cover programs and events as scheduled.
 
Reporting to the Deputy Director, the Video Fellow will work collaboratively across the CT team, project curators, and artists. The Fellow will visually document various aspects of our projects and produce innovative content, including short-form promotional and documentary videos. The Fellow will be part of the creative process, working with project curators, artists, and the full CT team to determine the best opportunities for moving image and video content for each project.
 
The ideal candidate will possess a strong voice in videography, skill in editing, a clear perspective on the arts and its role in political discourse, and motivation both for working with public artworks and within the communities that the organization’s projects engage and impact. The ideal Fellow will bring to the organization a creative vision, a knack for narrative, knowledge of and interest in the visual arts practices, prior experience in film production and post production, and desire to experience working with artists and teams in a creative, innovative environment.
 
The Video Fellow will work to document and tell the larger story of the 2025 Sonic Commons program at CTHQ and the 2025 R+D Fellowship.
 

CTHQ is a gathering space supporting artists working at the intersection of art and politics as they continue to plot, orchestrate, and recharge from cultural, political, and social organizing work. Rooted in a legacy of art and activism in the Lower East Side, CTHQ sits within Creative Time’s historic and ongoing work to gather artists to share tactics for political change most notably through the Think Tank, Summit, and Reports. CTHQ serves as a hub for today and tomorrow’s community of socially engaged and politically oriented artists in the neighborhood, citywide, across the country, and around the world.
 
In 2025, gatherings at CTHQ are organized around the Sonic Commons: the texture of sounds (and silences) that form the urban landscape. In the context of increasing political turmoil, unpredictability, and authoritarianism, we explore how the politics of sound can be explored as metaphors and tools to help us listen, decipher, decode, and move past this tumultuous moment.
 

The R&D (Research and Develop) Fellowship, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation’s Artist Impact Initiative, recognizes New York City-based artists who have demonstrated excellence in socially engaged art. The R&D Fellowship highlights artists who push the boundaries of public art, challenging social norms and exploring political action through innovative methods. Creative Time partners with artists to facilitate interdisciplinary research and collaborations, nurturing projects that address critical social issues and community needs.
 
The second iteration of the 2025 R&D Fellowship addresses the climate crisis, multifaceted and intersectional issues that span climate mitigation and adaptation technologies, migration, displacement, food systems, water access, fossil fuels, and environmental justice, among other areas of inquiry.
 
RESPONSIBILITIES
● Direct, shoot, and edit all video footage around CTHQ and R+D Fellowship, including post-production accessibility work such as adding captioning.
● Store and organize video footage in accordance with archival best practices.
● Lead the pre-production, production, and post production process with detail, organization, and strong communication skills.
● Adapt content for various distribution channels, including web and social media platforms.
● Contribute to packaging & distribution strategies for video works.
● Attend 1-2 CTHQ programs monthly to document (Wednesdays 6-8 pm)
● Attend up to 5 R&D cohort gatherings to document (Fridays lunchtime)
● Ongoing: create social media reels from video documentation (opportunity to work with Digital Comms consultant to propose an Instagram and TikTok series using video content)
● Ongoing: Work with Curator and Digital Comms Consultant to create a social media video content
● Fall 2025: Create 5 artist portraits for R&D Fellows (3-5mins each)
● Fall 2025: Create 1 video (3-5mins) promoting the R&D Fellowship program
● Fall 2025: Create 1 video (5-7mins) to act as an overview of CTHQ
● End of Year 2025: Create 1 video (2-5mins) to wrap up 2025 at Creative Time
 
REQUIREMENTS
● Should not currently be enrolled in a degree program.
● Must be resourceful and diplomatic, with experience balancing multiple projects and meeting deadlines.
● Must demonstrate prior experience in documentation, filmmaking, and the process of creating, editing, and posting video for the web.
● Comprehensive knowledge of digital video, Premiere, Final Cut Pro (or comparable software), and Photoshop required. Knowledge of After Effects and Illustrator helpful.
● A thorough understanding of storyboarding.
● Awareness of formatting conditions for sharing video content online and via social platforms.
● Must have access to editing equipment & software i.e. Final Cut.
● Ability to work out of Creative Time’s office in the East Village when required, with the flexibility to additionally accommodate potential evening and weekend shoots/edits throughout the year, on a reasonable project-to-project basis.
 
EQUIPMENT
The following package is available for the Fellow’s use. The Fellow will additionally be tasked with making recommendations of equipment rentals and purchases based on the needs of the organization and each project:
● Nikon D300
● Sony Handycam HDR-AX2000
● Zoom H4N
● Saramonic uwMic9 Lavalier Microphone System
● Lacie 5TB Rugged USB 3.1 Hard Drive
● Artlist.io (music licensing)
 
POSITION TYPE
Part Time Employee
 
APPLICATION DEADLINE
04/07/25
 
COMPENSATION
$20,000 stipend for 12-month commitment
 
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Creative Time is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, gender, gender identity or expression, familial status, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, ability, age, arrest or pre-employment conviction record, or military status.
 
Our work at Creative Time is inherently political, social, and invested in the global justice movements of our time. It is also fun, experimental, and often very delightful. We value individuals who embody those values, backgrounds, and lived experience.
 
Interested and qualified candidates should submit:
● a resume, cover letter that explains why you are interested in the fellowship
● contact information for two references
● equipment list or note about which camera/sound equipment you typically shoot with, and links or attachments to work samples.
 
Please email the application to jobs@creativetime.org with the subject line: 2025-26 Video Fellowship.
 
Due to the volume of applications we anticipate, we will only be able to reach out to a small portion of candidates who we plan to interview.