Andrea Bordoli

Institute of Social Anthropology

E-Mail
andrea.bordoli@unibe.ch
Postal Address
Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities
Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies
Walter Benjamin Kolleg
Universität Bern
Muesmattstrasse 45
CH-3012 Bern

Andrea Bordoli

Andrea Bordoli has a background in Visual Anthropology (MA, University of Manchester), Visual Arts – Cinema (HEAD – Genève), and Anthropology and Philosophy (BA, Neuchâtel University). His research and practice lies at the intersection between anthropological theory, film and visual art. He is currently based between Switzerland and Québec, and he is pursuing a practice-led PhD in Media Anthropology at the University of Bern as part of the interdisciplinary project "Mediating the Ecological Imperative". Since January 2022 he is a visiting artist-researcher at the anthropology department of McGill University.

His works have been presented in academic settings and exhibited in film festivals and art spaces nationally and internationally, such as Cinéma du Réel Paris, Festival dei Popoli Florence, Vancouver International Film Festival, Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück, the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, and others.

In parallel to his personal research he collaborated with various research groups and institutions such as EASA CH, Université de Neuchâtel, Université de Berne, Locarno Film Festival and Cinémathèque Suisse.

Title of PhD Project

From both eyes and feet on the land, we learn: re-mediating territories of extraction, life, and loss in Subarctic Canada (working title)

Research Foci

Environmental Anthropology | Visual and Media Anthropolog | Media Studies | Artistic Research | Indigenous Studies | Settler Colonialism | Extractivism | Anthropology of Mining | Sensory Ethnography | Science and Technology Studies