Rowena Potts is a filmmaker and anthropologist of media.
Her short films explore a wide range of subjects, including the entanglements of people and animals in urban settings and the complexity of our unfolding relationship to off-Earth environments. They have screened in festivals and museums around the world.
She is a co-founder (with Ceridwen Dovey) of The Archival Futures Collective, a creative collaboration dedicated to making archival experimental films about human relationships with nature and landscapes on Earth and in outer space.
Rowena holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from New York University, and a graduate diploma in documentary from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). She earned her bachelor’s degree in Comparative Religion from Harvard University.