Pola Bousiou
Pola is an anthropologist (MSc, PhD) and filmmaker (MA) and is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD with film as its practical component. She is particularly concerned with the relationship between text and image through deconstructing her self-reflexive anthropological language by making autofictional anthropological film/texts.
Pola's research interests include autobiographical film-making; performativity; ritual; cultural and gender theory; experimental ethnography; deconstructionism; poiesis; travel; autofictional narrative; ethnographic fiction.
Publications/films
The Nomads of Mykonos: Perfoming Otherness in a Polysemic Tourist Space. Forthcoming publication: Berghahn Books (2006).
Soliloquies; an essay film on post-modern nomadic existence autonomy and aloneness; 2003.
Sye's War; a subjective portrait of a London based yogi and a film about performativity; 2003.