An van. Dienderen

An van. Dienderen is a filmmaker who graduated in audiovisual arts (Sint-Lukas, Brussels), obtained a Ph.D. in Comparative Cultural Sciences (Ghent University), and was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. She made several documentaries screened worldwide, which were awarded with (inter)national prizes. She publishes and lectures internationally on documentary, film, and visual/performative anthropology. She is affiliated as a tenured professor and senior researcher at KASK & CONSERVATORIUM School of Arts Ghent.

An van. Dienderen will work on the documentary KOPIRAET, following the trail to Vanuatu of Lengnangulong, a stone ‘collected’ in Vanuatu and now exhibited in the Louvre. Together with anthropologist Hugo DeBlock, who is adopted by Chief Johnson, they ask for the help of Hugo’s inner circle in Vanuatu. KOPIRAET explores the meaning of ownership and copyright, in the challenging context of its asymmetrical relationships. How do images by Western filmmakers cycle back to the source community?