Anna Helme is a filmmaker, video artist and impact media practitioner. Her hybrid documentary/fiction short MyMy , an Asia-Pacific participatory media organization focused on social-justice and environmental video, for which she received a Myer Foundation Dunlop Asia Fellowship in 2007, and with whom she has worked extensively with filmmakers and video artists around South East Asia. As a video artist she has performed live around Australia and internationally, including hybrid AV theatre work Electric Dreams commissioned for Nextwave 2004, and with AV pioneers Coldcut, with whom she has toured Europe and the UK and undertook an Australia Council supported artist placement at the Centre Pompidou in 2002. She has created single-channel video installations for Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art's 2014 Nightcraft, and MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festivals in 2014 and 2015, and collaborated with Phillip Adams Ballet Lab to create experimental dance film. Anna has a passion for collaborating closely with communities, creating hybrids of documentary, narrative cinema and video art to produce uniquely told and deeply personal stories. She undertook an artistic practice-as-research PhD in moving image making practices at the University of Melbourne, VCA, in 2015.
