Philip Rabalais

Avant-Garde

DFFO '22 Film - Boat Movie

Philip Rabalais is a filmmaker and electronic musician from Fairfield, Iowa. His movies embrace narrative abstraction in an effort to challenge and loosen conventional habits of perception. Rabalais received an MFA in Film and Video Production from the University of Iowa in 2020. His work has screened internationally at venues such as Slamdance, NoBudge, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Onion City, and on filmmakermagazine.com; his work as a cinematographer has been featured in the Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival.