Blake Kendall

Blake (son of Pauline) is a Renaissance Man and the youngest of six children. Australian according to passport, and based between Berlin / Sarawak / Sydney. After five years working as a producer and director in commercial production in Australia, Blake fell in love with film. Working across multiple mediums, the past was dedicated to collaborating with Indigenous communities in language and cultural preservation projects, including working with Arrernte Communities (Central Desert, Australia) and Mayan communities in Guatemala. He spent over ten years facilitating and running film festivals with rough sleepers (homeless) communities. Since 2013, he has been collaborating with Penan communities in Sarawak (Malaysia // New Pangea ) with a focus on developing sustainable futures in the post-logged forests.

Commitment entails that this is ongoing research with multiple iterations, including films, performances, deep listening, text-based and digital intervention modes. More interested in dialogue than in answers, aspiring to the ‘Open Ended’. A student to life, and more formally a graduate of M.A. Visual & Media Anthropology (Freie Universitat Berlin) and B.A. Writing and Cultural Studies (University of Technology, Sydney). After taking his mother through the death cycle he develops practices of grief circles and connecting with the ancestors. He lectures in Digital Anthropology and Environmental Anthropology in universities in Germany, researching Hitchhiking, the Anthropocene, Materialism as Sensuous Existence, Indigenous Knowledge Production, Doco-fiction Hybrid Films, De-politicised Beaurocratic Apparatus, the Virtual Paradigm, Hunting and the Ecosystem. Blake writes poetry (as spoken by the wind). He learnt to read upside down, is dedicated to making sense of the senseless. In 2011 he learnt to listen...