Johanna Tesfaye

Authored by Johanna Tesfaye

Connecting to Community Through the Archives

Monday, July 27, 2026
Working with an archive allows us to situate ourselves within a place’s history and connect with the community it has represented over time. This is central to my own filmmaking process, a way of imagining with the narratives of an archive. A creative practice that began with materials from my personal archive (years of iPhone photos and videos, notes, sound recordings) has since developed into deliberate collaborations with people, places, and spaces.
Johanna Tesfaye