J.P. Sniadecki

J.P. Sniadecki, assistant professor of radio/television/film, is a filmmaker and anthropologist active in China and the United States, whose films explore collective experience, sensory ethnography, and the possibilities of cinema. His films are in the permanent collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and have screened at festivals such as the Berlinale, Locarno, New York, AFI, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Viennale, Torino, BAFICI, RIDM, Cinema du Reel, FICUNAM, and DOChina as well as at venues such as the 2014 Whitney Biennale, the 2014 Shanghai Biennale, the Guggenheim, Vienna’s MAC, Beijing’s UCCA, and the Shenzhen Biennale. His films include Chaiqian/Demolition (2010) winner of the Joris Ivens Award, Foreign Parts (2010) winner of two Leopards at Locarno and named Best Film at the Punto de Vista Film Festival and DocsBarcelona, People’s Park (2012) named Best Anthropological Film at Festival dei Popoli, and Yumen (2013) named Best Experimental Film and Best Chinese Film at the Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival. Sniadecki’s latest feature, The Iron Ministry (2014), was A.O. Scott’s “Critics Pick” in the New York Times and has screened widely and garnered the top prize at L’Alternativa Film Festival and jury prizes at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Valdivia and Camden. He is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and coorganizer of the traveling film series “Cinema on the Edge” and “China Now”, which showcase independent cinema from China. He has also written articles and interviews for Cinema Scope and contributed essays to Visual Anthropology Review and the edited volume DV-Made China (Hawaii University Press).