Philip Rabalais is a filmmaker and electronic musician from Fairfield, Iowa. His movies explore a precarious, poetic relationship to reality via open-ended narratives, formal experimentation, and intimate collaborations amongst cast and crew.
Rabalais received an MFA in Film and Video Production from the University of Iowa in 2020. His work has screened 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 Locarno Film Festival, and Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival. He was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 Faces of Independent Film" for 2024.