Emilia Tsutsumi is a visual anthropologist specialising in multimodal and experimental research, with an interest in anthropological filmmaking, sensory ethnography and more-than-human entanglements. Emilia has graduated her Bachelors in Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and holds a master’s in visual Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. As part of her bachelor’s thesis Emilia produced a multimodal collaborative film ‘Blurred lines’ (2020) on the topic of digitalization of higher education in times of the corona crisis which has been screened at the VU ethnographic film day at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. As part of her Master thesis Emilia has produced a film on the topic of ‘Thrifting’ (2022) which was screened in Kriterion Amsterdam and concluded her Masters with honours. Emilia is currently a doctoral student at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and a research fellow on the ERC ‘Foraging at the edge of capitalism’ research project lead by Dr. Martin Saxer.
Getting Your Hands Dirty and Your Mind Clean
Foraging practices on the verge of the urban green