Julia
Yezbick

Julia Yezbick (b.1980) is a filmmaker, artist, and anthropologist. She received her PhD in Media Anthropology and Critical Media Practice from Harvard University and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. Yezbick's creative practice is primarily one of experimental nonfiction addressing topics of labor, movement and the body, feminism, and social commentary on issues ranging from ethnicity and gender to housing and urban transformations. Her work uses film, video, audio, writing, and installation, and has been exhibited at various international festivals and venues including the Berlin International Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, Antimatter [Media Art] Festival, the Broad Underground Film series (Lansing), the Art Gallery of Ontario, the New York Library for Performing Arts, Station Arts Space (Beirut), the AgX Film Collective (Boston), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum. Yezbick lives and works in Detroit where she directs Mothlight Microcinema and is an Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Studies at Wayne State University.