Clara Kleininger-Wanik

Visual anthropologist and filmmaker, researches and films on topics of multispecies relationships (in Mexico, in Romania) and migration (in Poland). Clara is currently PhD candidate in Film by Practice at the University of Exeter and London Film School (UK) and has been visiting researcher at the UABJO, Mexico. Her research concerns multispecies relationships, conservation and indigenous and Afro-Mexican ontologies and how these might be best represented through documentary film.

Several of Clara’s films have been shown in international festivals, her short documentary Everyday Greyness premiered at the Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 (UK) and her feature-length documentary No Elephant in the Room, which questions human and more-than-human relationships at the Bucharest State Circus, was awarded special mention at the Krakow Film Festival 2023 (Poland). Clara has taught documentary film and anthropology at the University of Opole, Poland and in various anthropology summer-schools (Spotlight) and courses (St. Gallen University).