Pauline is a visual anthropologist and filmmaker with a special interest in subversive and artistic practices. Her first field research took place in the Swiss rural area along the Bodensee and was concerned with the self-empowering practices of Outsider artists. Having entered the art market long time ago, Outsider Art refers to the practices of individuals who are stigmatized and marginalized socially due to being psychologically ill, handicapped, connected to drug abuse, or alike. Here, she conduced collaborative in-depth research with one artist of this scene by producing pieces of lithography and etching, taught through his method. Herself engaged in climate and social justice, she worked with a theatre form, namely the methodology of the theatre of the oppressed. 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 as cinematographer and visual anthropologist.