Jyoti Mistry | americas.dafilms.com

Born in Durban, South Africa in 1970, she works with film as an interplay between cinematic traditions and installation art. Her films have screened at festivals including Toronto, Winterthur, Rotterdam and Durban and in exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich, Museum der Moderne Salzburg and Kunsthalle Wien. She has been artist in residence at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and was a member of the International Short Film Jury at the 68th Berlinale. She is currently professor for film at the University of Gothenburg.

Films

Loving in Between

Jyoti Mistry

Between birth and death, is the power to love and live. Political rules, religious orders, social norms and cultural taboos control who we love and how we love.
Cause of Death

Jyoti Mistry

An autopsy report describes the physical impact on the body that results in death but hides the structural and recurrent violence on women’s bodies that leads to femicide.
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man

Jyoti Mistry

A black man runs through a field. A black man runs on the beach. A black man runs through a city. The black man is always running. A black man runs towards freedom.

Filmography

Cause of Death: 2020
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man: 2017

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