Isabelle Carbonell
Assistant Professor
- Department: Communication, Media and Culture
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Professor Carbonell is a Belgian-Uruguayan-American sci-fi documentary filmmaker, working as an assistant professor in film at AUP since January 2022. Her research and practice lie at the intersection of expanded documentary, environmental justice, and the Anthropocene, while striving to develop new visual and sonic approaches and methods to rethink documentary filmmaking and create a multispecies cinema. Imbued in all her work is the connection between the slow violence of environmental disaster, climate change, bodies of water, more-than-humans, and the future. Carbonell's award-winning films and installation works have been presented in museums, film festivals, and art galleries internationally. She has received support via a Mellon dissertation fellowship, the Princess Grace Foundation, HKW/Max Planck Institute research grant, Berkeley Human Rights fellowship, and Georgetown Environmental Initiative grant among others.
Education/Degrees
- B.A. Environmental Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- B.A. Social Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- M.A. Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
Expected 2022/2023:
- Ph.D. Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
Publications
- Interactive Multispecies Documentary Methods A chapter in Interactive Documentary: Decolonizing Practice-Based Research. Routledge. Eds Kathleen Marie Ryan and David Staton, 2022.
- Multispecies Cinema in Wretched Waters: The Slow Violence of the Rio Doce Disaster A chapter in Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change by Eds T.J. Demos, Emily Eliza Scott, and Subhankar Banerjee, 2021.
- Attunements Carbonell, Isabelle, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Yen-Ling Tsai. 2021. "Attunements." Fieldsights, September 14. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/attunements
- A Story on Story: Camel Racing, Robot Jockeys, and Documentary Filmmaking World Records Journal Vol. 5 | April 15th, 2021
- The Panesthetic River HKW Anthropocene Curriculum, 2020
- Polyps are a Pluriverse Feral Atlas, Stanford University Press eds. Anna Tsing | October 4, 2020
- A Correspondence with the Senses: Panesthesia as Research Method Correspondences, Cultural Anthropology website | February 11, 2019.
- Coming to Our Senses: Talking Heads versus the Panesthetic Documentary Interview Conexión: Departamente de Comunicaciones de la PUCP Vol 9, 2018
- Golden Snail Opera: The More-Than-Human Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan’s Langyan Plain Co-authored: Yen-Ling Tsai, Isabelle Carbonell, Joelle Chevrier, Anna Tsing Cultural Anthropology Journal Vol 31.4, November 2016
- The Ethics of Big Data in Big Agriculture Internet Policy Review Journal on Internet Regulation Vol 5.1, April 2016.