Below the Radar: Experimental Documentary Practices — with Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Below the Radar is recorded on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. This time on Below the Radar, host Am Johal speaks with Andrea Luka Zimmerman, an award winning filmmaker and cultural activist. In this episode they talk about her experiences engaging in long-term, deeply-researched, collaborative filmmaking. In depth interview on the deep values of my practice and the processes. How to make work between art, activism, with care, without extractive practices, to share knowledge, to enable participation, to make poetry regardless of structural expectations and mainstream gaze delineating lived experience that is different from mainstream narratives. How can collaboration be the foundation of mutuality, experimentation, self imagining and re imagining in a way that is otherwise. How can filmmaking practice both be an activist and poetic practice? How to share resources not extract? What is friendship and community in relation to structures of domination