Andrea Bordoli has a background in Visual Anthropology (MA, University of Manchester), Visual Arts – Cinema (HEAD – Genève), and Anthropology and Philosophy (BA, Neuchâtel University). His research and practice lies at the intersection between anthropological theory, film and visual art. He is currently based between Switzerland and Québec, and he is pursuing a practice-led PhD in Media Anthropology at the University of Bern as part of the interdisciplinary project "Mediating the Ecological Imperative" (https://ecological-imperative.ch/). Since January 2022 he is a visiting artist-researcher at the anthropology department of McGill University.
His works have been presented in academic settings and exhibited in film festivals and art spaces nationally and internationally, such as Visions du Réel Nyon, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück, the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, ETHNOFEST Athens and others.
In parallel to his personal research he collaborated with various research groups and institutions such as EASA CH, Université de Neuchâtel, Locarno Film Festival and Cinémathèque Suisse.