Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Ella Raidel 2005 Austria color 3min

Director

Ella Raidel

Ella Raidel, Ph.D., is a filmmaker, artist and researcher. Since April 2019 she is Assistant Professor of Documentary film at NTU Singapore at ADM School of Art, Design and Media and WKWSCI School of Communication and Information. In her interdisciplinary work – films, videos, writings – she focuses on the socio-cultural impact of globalization with a focus on urbanization and Asian cinemas. She is interested in reflexive forms of narration in questioning the representation in documentary films. Her film-making corresponds with her writings on Sinophone cinema for researching the poetics in image-making. Her work has been presented and distinguished in numerous international film festivals, exhibitions and biennials. She is the co-editor (with Peng Hsiao-yen) of Altering Archives, The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture (Routledge Contemporary China Series 2018) and has publicized on Tsai Ming-Liang’s work.

Ella Raidel

2014Double Happiness (doc.)

2012Play Life Series (short)

2011SUBVERSES – China in Mozambique (short doc.)

2009Slam Video Maputo (short doc.)