Ana Edwards

"Pandamonium" is an ethnographic essay film which explores conceptions of 'the exotic other' through the trope of the giant panda and, in so doing, it interrogates the seemingly distant colonial legacy of today’s Britain with regards to 'the oriental Chinese'.

In a forgotten Swiss valley, an evil wind haunts the daily lives of former Italian asbestos factory workers, who still breathe its invisible fibers.

Mundo explores the widespread phenomenon of evangelical conversion among indigenous peoples in South America through the case of Matilde, an elderly Aymara woman who raises cattle on the border between Chile and Bolivia. The film delicately shows how, for her, the sacred land is becoming an evil place and how the sky is filling up with a new presence. One world is eclipsing to make room for another.

The boundaries between self and world are porous in Ana Edwards' beautiful short film from a Mapuche family's home region in southern Chile.