Jyoti Mistry is a filmmaker and Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her artistic practice moves seamlessly between filmmaking and installation art practices. In 2016 she won the prestigious CILECT (International
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Jyoti Mistry is a filmmaker and Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her artistic practice moves seamlessly between filmmaking and installation art practices. In 2016 she won the prestigious CILECT (International Association of Film Schools) Teaching Award. Mistry has taught at institutions internationally and has been artist in residence in New York City, at California College of Arts (San Francisco), SACATAR (Brazil), and at the HFF Film School in Babelsburg (Germany). In 2017, she was artist in residence at the Netherlands Film Academy and created two exhibitions and a publication “Places to Play” on artistic research in film. Her feature film IMPUNITY (2014) had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, its European premier at Stockholm Film Festival. Her solo exhibition “Narrative, Memory, Site” (in 2013) included works: XENOS, Building the Invisible City; Commuting; Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit at the Barengasse Museum in Zurich. Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit featured at Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris, (2014). 09:21:25 was part of the group show - International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon, South Korea (November 2011) and included in Weltraum (Space: about a Dream) Exhibition, at Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna)(April- August 2011).
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