Lea Vinter Sonne
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I am interested in creating a new language about mental illness through participatory filmmaking - to open up a conversation that goes beyond illnesses, fixed boxes and diagnosis. How can we through sound, image and participatory filmmaking create an open space and a new language about mental illness? A language that goes beyond illness, fixed boxes and diagnosis. At the VRN 2019 Residency I would like to invite you into the creation of a new short film with and about my good friend, Freja. Visual anthropologist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, DK. I hold an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester and studied film and photography at Fatamorgana – The Danish School of Art Photography. I currently work in the Danish film and TV industry. |
Alexander Martin
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Between other humanitarian-themed film projects, I am engaged in the documentation of the efforts of victims’ collectives to find their missing loved ones and lobby the government following the discovery of state-engineered secret mass graves in the state of Morelos, Mexico. My aim for the project is to expose this crisis and experiment with the depiction, through sensory media, of the fundamental deception experienced as a consequence of inhabiting the environment of Foucauldian neoliberal governmentality, while drawing inspiration from the Mexican ontology that mixes Roman Catholic and Prehispanic spiritual leanings, the latter exemplified by colonial era Nahuatl Poetry. Alexander Martin is a freelance visual anthropologist, videographer and musician from Derbyshire, UK, working primarily in Morelos, Mexico. Trained at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology in Manchester, he has turned his efforts to social and humanitarian projects both independently and within public institutions, covering areas such as child sexual exploitation in the UK and the impacts of natural disaster and systemic abduction in Mexico. His new short film Magnitude 135, which explores a synaesthetic’s experience of the 2017 Puebla earthquake, will screen at the VRN conference 2019. |
Patricia Bermudez
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Patricia works in the field of Visual Anthropology, Community-Collaborative Cinema, Documentary, Photography and Amazonian Historicities. During ten years, she has been working with indigenous communities in the Amazonian region of Ecuador with visual ethnographic methodologies. Nowadays, she works with an Association of Women Midwives Kichwas from Alto Napo producing a collaborative feature documentary film, Sacha Mamakuna – Women for the Jungle. Patricia Bermúdez has a B.A. degree in Visual Communication. Master degree in Screenwriting and a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Bergen in Norway. For more than 20 years she works as a visual filmmaker and researcher. She is a teacher at the Latino American Faculty of Social Science in Ecuador within the Visual Anthropology program. |
Jose Luis Fajardo
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My work is mainly oriented to environmental, agricultural, and food issues. I have developed visual ethnographies in Wales, Manchester, and Peru. I am from Mexico and recently finished a PhD in social and visual anthropology at the University of Manchester. I am interested in the evocative potential of photography and film as strategies for social research and representation. |
Lorena Cervera Ferrer
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My research looks at practices, politics, and aesthetics in women’s documentary, focusing on the case of Latin America from 1970 to 1990. Through a practice-based approach, I am in the process of making a documentary film that explores feminists debates about representation, aesthetics, and discourse. Lorena Cervera is a documentary filmmaker and researcher. Her films have been shown at festivals, cinemas, and art galleries. She teaches documentary filmmaking at the University of Essex, and is currently doing a practice-based PhD in Film Studies at UCL. |
Joao Meirinhos
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Adopting multiple personas (insider / outsider, artist / architect / academic) as to validate my understanding of things, I intuitively use photography, text and film as a way to engage in diverse and often uncomfortable situations, attempting to depict settings from habitually disregarded angles in order to identify and reveal the often unconscious procedures from which political, social and spatial structures emerge. I tell photographic tales that stem from my avid interest discordant/conflictual interactions between peoples and places, how social phenomena inextricably embed themselves into inhabited landscapes, how environments archive endemic human behaviours, beliefs and represenational systems. João is a filmmaker with strong inclinations towards experimental ethnography and visual art. He's been engaging with socially engaged creative organizations that focus on social justice, artivism and environmental awareness for about a decade. Since 2009 he's been running 'Cinema du Desert' with Italian NGO Bambini Nel Deserto: a solar powered mobile cinema that has taken him screening films (by land and for free) along West Africa's and Central Asia's most isolated communities. Based in Lisbon, founder of Filmes Sombra, a production company focused on Art, Audiovisual and Anthropology, has been working as a freelancer performer, self shooting director, video editor and copywriter. |
Jenna Keiper
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I currently study the relationship between inner/outer rhythm and the concept of the “embodied brain” or “extended mind.” Forever interested in disciplinary intersections, I explore human experience and point of view using film, dance and social science. Jenna Keiper is a filmmaker, dancer and interdisciplinary artist originally from Seattle, United States. Her love of school led to a BFA/BA dual degree specializing in interdisciplinary collaboration while her love of performance led to a career in concert and commercial dance. She is currently based in Germany at the University of Münster studying for a master’s degree in Visual Anthropology, Media Studies and Documentary Practice. |
Subir Che Selia
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My research concerns the audio-visual aesthetics of seeing and blindness in general and the phenomenological experience of determining the visually indeterminate in the blind from the sighted perspective in particular. I am currently working towards an audiovisual essay about the blind’s perceptual experience of Berlin, whereby it explores the inter-relation of seeing, blindness, imagination, and imagery in perception. Subir Che Selia is a Ph.D candidate in Media Art & Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany whose work focuses on phenomenological and media-philosophical approaches to documentary. He holds an MA degree in Media Art & Design and a BSc. degree in Architecture Studies.
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Maria Nastase
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Sonic Images have their roots in pixel sonification, specifically mapping the sound frequencies of a recorded soundscape to pixels brightness and colors. Hovering over the picture with the mouse, the digital image is perceived as a physical object with its respective space and temporal dimension. I am working towards developing this interactive medium of audio exploration of visible and cultural environments and hope to contribute to extra textual frameworks of scholarly practices. Maria Năstase studied anthropology at the University of Bucharest and ethnographic filmmaking at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology in Manchester. She is currently doing an MA in Interactive Technologies for Performative and Media Arts at CINETic (The International Center for Research and Education in Innovative Creative Technologies) in Bucharest. She is exploiting the democratization of technology to experiment with digital artistic practices as a medium for knowledge production and distribution.
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Umberto Cao
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The project Umberto is working on is an ethnographic documentary about “Luz y Fuerza del Pueblo”, a civil resistance movement from Chiapas, Mexico, which has also been the subject of his PhD dissertation. Umberto Cao has just obtained a PhD in Anthropology at EHESS. He has worked several years in the field of international cooperation. He eventually turned his interest towards visual anthropology, particularly on contemporary murals and ethnographic documentaries. |
Iria Sanjurjo
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I am currently directing my first personal project. A documentary series recording traditions, festivals and ancestral rituals from the Iberian Peninsula and part of Europe, mixing up an anthropological vision with non-fiction genre. Film and video editor with a trajectory of over 10 years. Experienced in the edition of documentaries, films, video reports, advertisement, trailers and video-clips. I also work as a director and camera in my own productions. |
Antonio Cadierno
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Through interdisciplinary dialogue and new immersive audiovisual technologies we can help to experience otherness and cause social changes. I'm composing an itinerant performance with a series of audiovisual capsules in virtual reality so that museums can expose deep visual anthropological research to general public. Audiovisual Anthropologist, I have made numerous documentaries and I love exploring new ways of exposing reality. Founder of AntropoDocs & Films, professor in some courses/master of transmedia anthropology, co-director of the MAAM and curator of exhibitions at the National Museum of Anthropology Madrid |
