Discipline
Interdisciplinary and film
About the artist
Joy Brandsma is a Dutch-Rwandese queer visual anthropologist, curator and filmmaker. She has a bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology and a master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology – Visual Track from the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The result of this masters is the film ‘Dancing in Captivity’. This film has been screened at the International Queer & Migrant festival and at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival. Currently she is working on a documentary project called ‘A Thousand Colors’. This project centres bridging a gap between a younger and an older generation BIPOC LGBTQIA+ people and archiving material from the older generation LGBTQIA+ people. She also works as a freelance researcher at DAS Graduateschool in the Research department.
2020, Covid meditations, Video, 2’23”
Other works of the artist
2021, Video, 46′