Marley McDonald

Marley McDonald is a filmmaker and painter living in Queens, New York. She primarily works with archival footage and is drawn to projects about time, technology, and mythology. She directed and edited her debut feature-length documentary, Time Bomb Y2K (co-directed with Brian Becker), which premiered on HBO in December 2023. Her recent editing work includes Earth to Michael (Telluride Film Festival 2025) and the generative documentary Eno (Sundance 2024). 

Her associate editor credits include Spaceship Earth (Sundance 2020) and the Golden Lion–winning, Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. She is currently directing and editing a film based on the archives at the American Museum of Natural History.