Artist & Film Director Talissa Mehringer studied film + media arts in NYC where she lived and worked for 8 years. She learned to be resourceful and used found objects from the streets of Brooklyn to make surreal stop-motion animations, buillding sets from discarded materials in her windowless basement apartment. Her experiences in the Big Apple hugely informed her unique visual style and DIY approach to filmmaking. Born into a family of social anthropologists, she gained early insight into her parents’ fieldwork and projects. At six, she visited the Canela tribe in the Brazilian Amazon basin with them, and a year later moved to Tanzania, where she witnessed and took part in Maasai ceremonies. These formative experiences sparked her interest in exploring and documenting the world, and played a key role in shaping her passion for filmmaking. She has worked on all-encompassing installations in Minneapolis and Berlin, painted murals at festivals in Tilburg, Bristol, and Würzburg, and exhibited and screened internationally across Europe and the US.