Director: Michal Krawczyk

Description:

Set in the Andean-Amazon Piedmont of Colombia, this community-led participatory documentary is filmed by the community itself, using phones, drones and trail cameras as tools of collective authorship. Blending collaborative filmmaking with Indigenous media, the film follows biodiversity mapping and reforestation practices while foregrounding Traditional Ecological Knowledge as lived, relational and future-facing. Knowledge here is not extracted but co-created through everyday engagements with the forest. Trail cameras shift from surveillance to relation, while digital tools intertwine with ancestral ways of knowing. Extending into a shared editing process with an Indigenous editor, the film embraces collective authorship at every stage–reframing cinema as a decolonial, relational practice grounded in community, territory and care.

Biography:

Michal Krawczyk is an environmental anthropologist and multimedia artist engaging with communities, biocultural landscapes and ecological knowledge across South America, Italy and Australia. His work is grounded in participatory action research and informed by an intersectional approach to environmental justice. His work has been presented in over twenty countries, including the Vienna Biennale, Sydney Biennale, UN Biodiversity Conference COP16 and the Voice of Commons Planetary Embassy at the Venice Architecture Biennale. He currently works on two community-led projects from the Andean-Amazon Piedmont of Colombia. Jajañ, developed in collaboration with the Kamëntsá Indigenous Council, explores the biocultural heritage and ecological knowledge of the Kamëntsá people in the Sibundoy Valley. 

Contact Information:

e: michal.krawczyk@alumni.griffithuni.edu.au 
w: tarratarra.com