Rajat Nayyar is an anthro­pol­o­gist and film­mak­er who is cur­rent­ly a SSHRC Vanier Schol­ar and a PhD Can­di­date in The­ater at York Uni­ver­si­ty. He is the co-founder of Emer­gent Futures CoLab (EFC) through … read more

“Cli­mate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st cen­tu­ry.” (Lancet Cli­mate Change Com­mis­sion 2009) This sci-fi short film takes action and drafts a future well­ness par­adise. Taking … read more

A cau­tion­ary tale on the end­less entan­gling of infor­ma­tion shar­ing, social media, mean­ing and daily life, and as well, a satire on the anthro­pol­o­gist as col­o­niz­er of knowledge. 

Dr. Carlos Popper, a pos­i­tivist ethno­g­ra­ph­er arrives in the neigh­bour­hood of Park­dale, Toron­to, to study the grow­ing con­cern of people van­ish­ing into total vir­tu­al real­i­ty (the film was shot during the summer of 2020). On his jour­ney he encoun­ters Mr. Noise, who embod­ies the desire for the vir­tu­al and tries to lure Popper to join him. Rep­re­sent­ing the lim­i­nal­i­ty between the vir­tu­al and phys­i­cal, Mr. Sound, anoth­er res­i­dent of the neigh­bour­hood, tries to save Popper. 

Jared Epp is a PhD Can­di­date in social anthro­pol­o­gy from Car­leton Uni­ver­si­ty in Ottawa, Canada. His research focus­es on the inter­sec­tion of place, imag­i­na­tion and pre­car­i­ty in a Cana­di­an urban con­text. He is cur­rent­ly based in Edmon­ton, Canada, fin­ish­ing his dis­ser­ta­tion and work­ing as a com­mu­ni­ty arts facil­i­ta­tor with indi­vid­u­als living unhoused and/or with a con­cur­rence of mental health bar­ri­ers and addictions. 

Direc­tor, Editor: Jared Epp
Camera: Jared Epp, Isaac Giles

Caused by a dimen­sion anom­aly, mil­lions of people have exchanged places with their alter egos from par­al­lel uni­vers­es. A few years after, the Anom­aly Foun­da­tion was found­ed to inte­grate new­com­ers into … read more

The vil­lage of Shol­o­gon is locat­ed in the taiga in north­east­ern Siberia. An extreme heat wave ignit­ed fierce forest fires in the remote region two years ago. At first, res­i­dents … read more

We are in a moun­tain vil­lage of the Hmong, mem­bers of an ethnic minor­i­ty in north­west Viet­nam. For three years, Hà Lệ Diễm has come here again and again, befriend­ing … read more

Some days, the black kites lit­er­al­ly drop from the sky—the air pol­lu­tion in Delhi, India, can be so intense that flocks of the birds fall to earth. If they’re lucky, … read more