Elizabeth Landesberg
INFANT, Peru
Elizabeth (EB) Landesberg is a multimedia documentary artist and educator. She holds an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University and a BA in Anthropology from Barnard College. Since graduating with her MFA, she has taught film studies courses in Duke’s Program in the Arts of the Moving Image.

EB has worked with young people through educational programs, media workshops and community organizations in Los Angeles, Durham, Mexico, Guatemala, and Bolivia. She has spent the past summer in Tanzania, facilitating participatory learning workshops with teachers and students, and making videos with young women about their experiences, dreams and cultures. Before graduate school, she spent two years making videos about families living in slumhousing apartment complexes in LA for a tenants’ rights law firm, and working in community radio.

EB’s projects over the last three years have explored practices, stories and spaces of mourning and remembrance. Her work has endeavored to make various kinds of labor more visible, as well as make people laugh. Her documentary practice is a mode of engaging with the world, allowing her to deconstruct and then reorder it. It is a way of putting different lives and communities in conversation—with one another, and with herself—and has given her the incredible privilege of learning from people all over the world.