Errabonda, 2025
16mm film, 20’
slide projections
silver gelatin prints
plant toned cyanotypes
Errabonda responds to biodiversity loss and soil depletion caused by industrial agriculture by exploring the intricate relationships between soil, plants, and humans. Through low-toxicity analog film and photographic processes, it reimagines agricultural landscapes by focusing on species coexistence, positioning overlooked weeds as collaborators and indicators of soil health. Plants and microbes are invited into the image-making process through direct contact with light-sensitive materials and hand processing using plant-based developers. These material encounters - shaped by time, temperature, and plant chemistry - embrace unpredictability and resistance, and blur the line between image and ecology. Errabonda asks how interspecies collaborations reshape our understanding of agriculture, and through the analog aesthetic of contact, opens up new ways of perceiving the traces and presences of beings that often lie beyond the limits of human perception.
Nominations
2026 DOC ALLIANCE Award
Screenings and exhibitions
2026 CPH:DOX, Artists & Auteurs + Science, Denmark
2025 Old Munch Museum, Norway
2025 Ars Electronica, Theme Exhibition, Austria
I think we begin as light, 2025
Digital, 40’
Co-director: Sille Skovgaard
Could a collaboration between plants, light and microorganisms show us a new and more fruitful path for agriculture? Take a journey beneath the earth's surface and meet the farmers who are making the attempt.
Just below our feet lies a living ecosystem shrouded in mystery. A silent and busy community of fungi, bacteria and other microscopic organisms that support the soil’s natural ability to filter water, store carbon and ultimately grow food. But after decades of industrial agriculture, in 20 seasons there will be no fertile soil left to cultivate.
A group of regenerative Danish farmers are trying to change that through endless experiments in cultivating living landscapes. But gradually they realize that there are no simple solutions in nature. ‘I Think we Begin as Light’ is an ethnographic journey below the earth’s surface that explores the complex relationships between microorganisms, plants and sunlight. A sensuous and poetic film about the earth disappearing beneath us – and those who struggle to recreate it.
Screenings
2025 Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, Denmark
2025 Øst for Paradis, Denmark
2025 CPH:DOX, Science, Denmark
2025 Kalø Landbrugsskole, Denmark
2025 Ecoliteracy Festival, Denmark
2025 UNG:DOX, Denmark
2025 Himmelblå Festival, Denmark
Ser Palmera, 2024
Digital, 60’
Beneath the shade of the palm trees a young woman is carefully observing the slow movements of its leaves. Ser Palmera revolves around the daily life of Amanda, an artist from Elche with a desire to become a Palmerera. Palm tree gardening is one of the oldest professions in her city, transmitted orally for centuries, but has always been dominated by men. Through her journey we discover the difficulties she will have to face while learning this profession, and the intimate connection that develops between her and her surroundings. Amanda’s strong determination to care for the planet manifests itself in a series of artistic tableaux emerging from the process of familiarizing herself with the heritage and materials of this cultural landscape.
Poetics of Patience, 2022
An exhibition made in a digital and artistic collaboration between seven Sahrawi activists and artists and six Danish anthropologists.
The exhibition invites the audience into a world of sound, video, images, and text, which explores the waiting position the Sahrawis find themselves in, as a consequence of Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara.
Poetics of Patience is supported by Global Aktion, Snabslanten, and Union.
Exhibitions
2024, Regensen, Denmark
2023, Union, Denmark
2022, Demokrati Garage, Denmark
Øbunden, 2021
Artist walk
Øbunden explored different perspectives on what it means to feel connected to a landscape. Along the route from Bølshavn to Årsdale, Emma meets twelve individuals from eastern Bornholm and asks each of them to reflect on how they feel a sense of connection to the Bornholm landscape. Together, they attempt to move beyond a romanticized view of the landscape and nature, and instead delved into how we live in coexistence with the landscape - as part of one another - for better or worse. What creates this sense of connection, and how can we understand it?
Emma met, among others, the fisherman, the brewer, the nature pedagogue, the priest, and the amateur archaeologist, but also non-human beings. For how does one feel connected when one is a 300-year-old oak tree, witnessing the ever-changing flow of everything? The exercise is about empathizing with other life forms. To listen attentively. To imagine what they might express, and how it might sound, feel, and resonate if we were attentive and patient enough to notice how the rhythms of the landscape.
Words of Wanderers, 2019
Digital, 24’
This project is looking into poetry as self-expression of identities amongst the younger generation of poets living in the Northeast Indian capitals of Shillong in Meghalaya, Aizawl in Mizoram and Imphal in Manipur. It revolves around the creative process of poetry writing in a region where the process of identity creation for the poets often includes a mix of balancing their “Indianness”, their tribal affiliation, being a Christian minority and a long history of an influx of music and literature from Europe and the US. Poetry as self-expression is both individualistic, subjective, personal and social, and therefore poems in many ways demonstrates the convergence of the political and the personal. For this project they are an entrance into exploring narratives of sense of belonging and how the poets experience witnessing the change happening in the region, especially very rapidly in the cities. The project is a series of performances and poetic short films created out of the meeting between the filmmaker and seven poets from three different states.
El Ave Enjaulado, 2018
Digital, 12’
Co-director: Esben Thode Schultz
Cinematographer: Jason Alami
In 2016, 52 years of armed conflict in Colombia officially came to an end with a historic peace agreement between the guerrilla movement FARC and the Colombian government. Then-president Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to bring peace to the country. But is there truly peace in Colombia today? And what happens to the people who have lived through decades of conflict?
The short film El Ave Enjaulado (The Caged Bird) offers a rare glimpse into life after the conflict, through personal stories told by three generations of former FARC members now living in the Tierra Grata reintegration camp. Their stories reflect hope and a newfound sense of freedom - of reuniting with family and trying to build a new life. But they also reveal uncertainty and doubt: What does peace really mean when the past still casts long shadows?
Thangam, 2018
HD, 30’
Co-director: Sarai Ramirez Payá
How can we create more inclusive societies? In rural Tamil Nadu, South India, a small group of people are collaborating on creating a community where everyone’s abilities are being taken into account and nourished. This film is a visual expression of everyday practices and relationships of this community, an intimate insight into an innovative way to approach disability in an area that faces a lack of governmental support.
Screenings
2018, Etnografilm, France
2018, Society for Visual Anthropology Media Festival
2018, DocsValencia
2018, Moscow International Etnographic Film Festival
Prizes
2018, Best Student Film, Society for Visual Anthropology Media Festival
2018, Fragments, DocsValencia
Praxi, 2017
HD, 11’
The ethnographic film Praxi follows a group of young Greek aspiring actors, determined to follow their dream. Every day, they come together in order to prepare themselves for the theatre school’s entry exam. For hours at a time, they listen to each other’s’ monologues, encourage each other to sing or they practice how they can free fall without getting hurt. Praxi focuses on several individuals to trace the shape and diversity of the greater group. They reflect on what theatre means to them. How do these lessons help them to grow as actors but also as people? And to what extent does the theatre provide them with a free space for self-expression?
Co-directors: Anne Lisa Mudde, Elli Siora, Emma Harris, Lotte van der Woude
Screenings
2017 Athens International Ethnographic Film Festival