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'Work is love made visible . . .
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Kamila Delart
SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMMAKER
Frequently honored at international festivals, her films achieve their truest purpose when the communities she portrays see their own truths reflected back - a moment of recognition she prizes above all accolades.
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She is currently conducting research for the third episode of her Death Contemplation Series while writing a book on filming rituals that straddles theory and practice, exploring the ethics of representation, the tension between observation and participation, the sacredness of sensory detail, and the alchemy of translating ritual into cinema.
A European, based for over a decade in Southeast Asia, Kamila Delart is a self-taught ethnographic filmmaker with a background in anthropology. Her work documents ancient rituals through experiential sensory ethnography - films designed not to explain, but to immerse.
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Since 2023, she has been crafting her Death Contemplation Series, exploring cultural perspectives on mortality through an unflinching yet poetic lens. Her approach rejects narration and subtitles, relying instead on slow motion, hyperreal soundscapes, and carefully curated music to evoke a visceral, wordless connection. What emerges is neither a conventional documentary nor an art film, but a new form of cross-cultural communication.
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The world is full of magic, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”