Filmmaker An van. Dienderen works at the intersection between documentary, anthropology and visual arts. While exploring various documentary strategies and the relation between self and other, she also investigates the medium of film in a self-reflective way. She graduated in audiovisual arts (Sint-Lukas, Brussels), obtained a PhD in Comparative Cultural Sciences (Ghent University), and was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley with Trinh Minh-ha. She made several documentaries screened worldwide, awarded with (inter)national prizes. She regularly publishes on documentary & visual/performative anthropology and she is a lecturer and artistic researcher affiliated with the School of Arts Ghent, where she conducts several research projects.