Andrea Bordoli

Andrea Bordoli is a visual anthropologist and filmmaker working at the intersection of anthropological research, cinema, and the (audio)visual arts. He holds a BA in anthropology and philosophy (BA, Université de Neuchâtel), an MA in visual anthropology (University of Manchester) and has been trained in visual arts-cinema at HEAD - Genève. He is currently a PhD candidate focusing on Visual and Environmental Anthropology at the University of Bern within the SNF-funded Sinergia project Mediating the Ecological Imperative. In 2022, he was visiting researcher at McGill University’s Critical Media Lab.

His current work – which combines ethnography, archival inquiry, and experimental audiovisual practices - focuses on extractivism in Subarctic Québec, with particular attention to toxicity and pollution; indigenous knowledges; local ecologies; remediation; and the coloniality of the visual regimes embedded in scientific (geological) practices. He has recently published articles in academic journals such as TRAJECTORIA and Roadsides, and is currently working on the completion of his PhD dissertation. His doctoral work has received grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Polar Institute.

Alongside academic research, he has developed several audiovisual works that have circulated internationally in academic spaces, festivals and institutions including Cinéma du Réel Paris, Festival dei Popoli Florence, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Vancouver International Film Festival, European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Trento Film Festival, the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, among others.