Chriss Huff

Instructional Assistant Professor of Film Production

Chriss Alison Huff is a documentary and experimental filmmaker who teaches in the Department of Theatre and Film as an Instructional Assistant Professor of Film Production. Huff has created a variety of work that explores and archives countercultures such as gender identity, drag performance, and Southern LGBTQ communities. Huff also creates experimental films and audiovisual installations that focus on the abstract nature of film itself by exploring how texture, objects, light, color, and sound interact with each other and create meaning. In addition to these projects, Huff has collaborated with other filmmakers in the community to produce films ranging in genres such as narrative comedy, narrative drama, documentaries about local musicians, and documentaries about the Mississippi Delta. Huff has received several awards for their work, and has presented work at film festivals such as the LA Punk Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA), Sound Unseen (Minneapolis, MN) Indie Memphis (Memphis, TN), Out on Film (Atlanta, Georgia), Love Wins International Film Festival (Roslyn, NY), Jackson Indie Music Week (Jackson, MS), and the Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, MS). 

Along with their own creative practices, Huff has also worked with The Emmett Till Interpretive Center as a documentarian where they produced a series of videos about the impact of COVID-19 in the Mississippi Delta. They have also worked at Ole Miss Sports Productions as a digital archivist where they digitized and edited analogue media including 16mm film reels, VHS tapes, BETA-CAMS, and Kodak photographs. Huff also worked on live production teams in the control room for sporting events such as football, baseball, softball, volleyball and soccer. Huff was a camera operator, graphics operator, replay operator, and a technical director for these events. 

Huff holds a dual Bachelor's Degree in Art and Southern Studies with a minor in Cinema Studies, a Master's Degree in Southern Studies (with an emphasis in documentary filmmaking and archiving), and an M.F.A. Degree in Documentary Expression from the University of Mississippi.