Jyoti Mistry
Senior Fellow 2025–2026

Jyoti Mistry works with film as a form of research and has produced critically acclaimed films across multiple genres; her installation work is likewise recontextualized for galleries and museums. Her most recent works include we come in peace, they said (2024), featured at Vienna Shorts; Loving in Between (2023), which premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival; and Cause of Death (2020), which premiered at the Berlinale. Her latest completed project focuses on Sámi experiences within Sweden’s colonial history.

Extending this practice into critical writing and academic leadership, her recent publications include “Three Procedures for (Un)Archiving,” Found Footage 10th Anniversary Issue (2025); “i/eye in the archive: a chance discovery of love,” Kolik Film (2024); and the special issue of Film Education Journal, “Decolonising Film Education” (2022). From 2021 to 2024, she served as editor-in-chief of PARSE (Platform for Artistic Research in Sweden), and in 2016 received the CILECT Teaching Award for innovation in film research and pedagogy. From September 2024 to September 2025, she was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at SOAS, University of London. Jyoti is also a member of the Steering Committee of CAPIm (Centre for Art and Political Imaginary), the first Swedish Centre of Excellence in Artistic Research.

The project undertaken during her fellowship has been developed through the intensive titled On the tensions of freedom: its surfaces and depths.