Isabelle Carbonell is a Belgian-Uruguayan-American award-winning documentary filmmaker and a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz thinking through a cinema of the anthropocene. Her work lies at the intersection of expanded documentary, environmental justice, invasive species, eco-disasters, multispecies ethnography, and “the possibility of life in capitalist ruins”. Her scholarship has been published in the Internet Policy Review, Conexión Journal, and the Cultural Anthropology Journal. Recent complete film works include:
- The River Runs Red (2018) is a multilinear web-based documentary exploring the question suffering in a post-disaster landscape on the Rio Doce Brazilian iron-ore tailings dam disaster.
- The Blessed Assurance (2018) is a sensorial documentary experience, a meditation on livelihood exploring both man and jellyfish in the otherworldly ecosystem found on an American trawl boat. Visceral images and sounds immerse us in a primordial world, decentering the human and even going inside a jellyfish. 22 mins
- The Camel Race (2018) is a visceral ethnographic experience in four takes of a camel race in Qatar, complete with robot jockeys and remote-controlled whips, interweaving human, animal, and machine. 25 mins
2019
A Correspondence of the Senses: Panesthesia as Research Method
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/a-correspondence-of-the-senses-panesthesia-as-research-method
2018
Coming to Our Senses beyond the Talking-Head: the Panesthetic Documentary Interview
http://departamento.pucp.edu.pe/comunicaciones/files/2018/09/CONEXION-No-9.pdf
2016
The Ethics of Big Data in Big Agriculture
https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/ethics-big-data-big-agriculture
2016
Golden Snail Opera: the More-Than-Human-Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan's Lanyang Plain
https://culanth.org/articles/851-golden-snail-opera-the-more-than-human