J. P. Sniadecki

[2] He attended Grand Valley State University for his undergraduate studies, completing his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and communications in 2002.

[4] His short film Songhua, shot along the Songhua River a year after the Jilin chemical plant explosions, documents the relationship between local residents and the river.

[6] Sniadecki co-directed Foreign Parts (2010) with Véréna Paravel, whose 2008 film 7 Queens informed their work.

The film looks at the physical traces of human activity in the Sonoran Desert near the Mexico–United States border.

It includes thermographic footage from Jason De León of the Undocumented Migration Project.