Jana Papenbroock grew up in New York and studied Audiovisual Media with a focus on nonfictional film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. She works interdisciplinarily within the fields of film, video, theater, radio, media pedagogy and writing.
Her areas of research include media ecology, collective authorship, anti/psychiatry, dis/ability and participatory, sustainable film practices.
She is based in Berlin. Her performative and video works have been shown in cinemas, museums, theaters, educational and social 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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