Pauline is a visual anthropologist (M.A.) with a special interest in subversive and artistic practices. Herself with one foot in the field of climate and social activism, she engages with a theatre form, namely the methodology of the theatre of the oppressed. Already her very first field research in the Swiss rural area along the Bodensee was concerned with the improvised and self-empowering practices of outsider artists, being defined as system-breakers (mental “anomaly” f.e. connected to drug abuse, cognitive divergence, etc.) and being stigmatized and marginalized socially. Here, she conduced collaborative in-depth research with one artist of this scene by producing pieces of lithography and etching, taught through his method. Her first documentary feature length film “Fire Under the Ashes” (2023), which premiered at the GIEFF 2024, is following and documenting the endless liminal phase of informal refugees stranded in Thuringia, Germany, and their performative public actions for a more humane asylum system. During the finishing of her masters at LMU Munich, she started working in the FORAGING Project, researching for the subproject in Albania and here working as co-cinematographer since.