Jana Papenbroock grew up in New York and studied audiovisual media with a focus on film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. She works within the fields of film, video, installation, theatre, radio and writing. Her areas of research include non-capitalist, community-based artistic practices, the (im)possibilities of political filmmaking, the ecologies of countercultures, commons, the politicization of the personal, anti/psychiatry and ethically aligning aesthetic practices with planetary boundaries.
She is based in Berlin. Her video and performative works have been shown in cinemas, museums, theaters, educational contexts, galleries, radio stations and exhibition spaces. Her documentary films, mostly situated within the field of visual anthropology, have been screened and multiply awarded in international film festivals.
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