Elizabeth Povinelli

Filmmaker and academic Elizabeth POVINELLI (1962) received her PhD in Anthropology from Yale University and she is currently a professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. As an academic she has several books and essays to her name. Povinelli is one of the founding members of Karrabing Film Collective, "an Indigenous media group based in Australia's Northern Territories that uses filmmaking and installation as a form of grassroots resistance and self-organisation". The short films that she made with this collective have been screened and received awards at numerous festivals. IFFR 2020 screens six short films in two combined programmes.

Filmography

(all short) Karrabing! Low Tide Turning (2012, co-dir), When the Dogs Talked (2014), Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$ (2015), Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams (2016), Night Time Go (2017), The Jealous One (2017), The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland (2018), Day in the Life (2020)

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