Jyoti Mistry

Jyoti Mistry is a filmmaker and Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in the Wits School of Arts. She has taught at New York University; University of Vienna; Arcada University of Applied Science Polytechnic in Helsinki and ALLE Arts School at University of Addis Ababa. Mistry has been an invited guest to teaching institutions internationally and to artist in residence programmes in New York City, at California College of Arts (San Francisco), SACATAR (Brazil) and NIROX Foundation (Johannesburg) and was a visiting scholar at the HFF Film School in Babelsburg (Germany).

Mistry’s artistic practice moves seamlessly between filmmaking and installation art practices. She has made critically acclaimed narrative, documentary and experimental films. Mistry's installation work draws from cinematic traditions but is often re-contextualized for galleries and museums that are outside of the linear cinematic experience.

Her filmography / installations include, among others:

• ‘In aters’ (2015); short film
• ‘IMPUNITY’ (2014); narrative feature film
• ‘Xenos’ (2013); tryptich installation
• ’09: 21:25’ (2011); experimental short film
• ‘Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit - The Bull on the Roof’ (2010); experimental feature film; also featured Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris  
• ‘I mike what I like’ (2006); documentary film
• ‘We Remember Differently’ (2005); experimental narrative short film 

Mistry has also published widely on the topics of multiculturalism, identity politics, race and memory. Her books include: ‘we remember differently: Race, Memory, Imagination’ (2012) a collection of essays inspired by her film in which explores the complexity of racial identity in South Africa and is published by UNISA Press. ‘Gaze Regimes: Films and Feminisms in Africa’ (2015) co-edited with Antje Schuhmann is published by Wits University Press.