Jyoti Mistry

Jyoti Mistry
Jyoti Mistry
	Mistry in 2020
Born	1970; Durban, South Africa
Alma mater	University of the Witwatersrand, Honours degree in Comparative Literature; New York University, Masters in Cinema Studies with a Certificate in Culture and Media; PhD in Cinema Studies
Known for	film directing, installation art and scholarly writing/teaching
Awards	Association of International Film Schools Teaching Award (2016)

Jyoti Mistry (born 1970) is a South African film director, installation artist, teacher and scholar of Indian ancestry.^[1] Her films explore the complexity of racial identity, multiculturalism and gender in modern South Africa through a decolonised lens.^[2]^[3]

Biography

Mistry was born in Durban, South Africa in 1970.^[4]

She achieved a degree in Comparative Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and holds MA and PhD degrees in Cinema Studies from New York University in the United States.^[5]

Mistry has been artist in residence at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, US; and the Sune Jonsson Centre for documentary photography at the Västerbottens Museum, Sweden. Her works have featured in international exhibitions and galleries including in the AFROPOLIS exhibition, Cologne, Germany;^[6] at the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Germany; at the Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria; and at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.

Her films have premiered at international film festivals, including Toronto, Winterthur, Rotterdam and Durban.^[4] She had won awards for her filmmaking at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival and at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, as well as being a member of the Official Competition jury at the 42nd Göthenburg International Film Festival (GIFF) in 2019.

Mistry edited the "Film as Research Tool: Practice and Pedagogy" special issue of the Journal of African Cinema (2018)^[2] and with Lizelle Bisschoff was a guest editor of the "decolonising film education" special issue of the Film Education Journal (2022).^[7] She has contributed articles to the International Journal of Film and Media Arts and has written film reviews for The Criterion Collection^[8] and Eurozine.^[9] She has also written on the politics and economics of "Nollywood"^[10] and co-edited with Antje Schuhmann the collection of essays Gaze Regimes: Film and Feminisms in Africa (2015).^[11]^[12]

Mistry has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand,^[1] Johannesburg, South Africa; New York University, US; the University of Vienna, Austria; Arcada University of Applied Science in Helsinki. Findland; and at the ALLE Arts School at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.^[13] She was awarded the Association of International Film Schools Teaching Award in 2016.

From 2017 to 2020 she was the principal researcher on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) cross cultural research project that explored image-making.^[14] As of 2025, Mistry is Professor in film at the Valand Academy of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and is the editor in chief of the Platform of Artistic Research in Sweden (PARSE).^[15]

Filmography

Yoni (1997)^[1]
We Remember Differently (2005)^[1]
I Mike What I Like (2006),^[1] a spoken word film based on a screenplay^[16]^[17]
Le loeuf sur le toit (2010), premiered at the Durban International Film Festival^[6]
09:21:25 (2011)^[9]
Impunity (2014)^[9]
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man (2017)^[9]
Cause of Death (2020), premiered at the Berlinale International Film Festival^[15] and was awarded Best International Short Film at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival and the Austrian Short Film Award^[18]
Loving in Between (2023), was awarded the No. 1 African Film Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e McCluskey, Audrey (1 October 2010). The Devil You Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa. University of Illinois Press. pp. 14, 102, 149. ISBN 978-0-252-09186-5.
^ ^a ^b "Jyoti Mistry". Screen Worlds. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
^ Charlton, Ed (1 June 2021). Improvising Reconciliation: Confession after the Truth Commission. Liverpool University Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-80034-480-8.
^ ^a ^b "Director Jyoti Mistry on "Cause of Death" and the short form". Berlinale Shorts (in German). 25 February 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
^ Ngcobo, Gabi (2011). Don't Panic. Jacana Media. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-920196-37-0.
^ ^a ^b "Jyoti Mistry". The Conversation. 18 August 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
^ Mistry, Jyoti; Bisschoff, Lizelle (14 June 2022). "Editorial: decolonising film education". Film Education Journal. 5 (1). doi:10.14324/FEJ.05.1.01. ISSN 2515-7086.
^ Mistry, Jyoti. "A Dry White Season: Justice Against the Law". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Jyoti Mistry". Eurozine. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
^ Adeshina, Afolayan (28 February 2015). Auteuring Nollywood: Critical Perspectives on The Figurine. University Press, Nigeria. p. 411. ISBN 978-978-069-828-7.
^ Harrow, Kenneth W.; Garritano, Carmela (18 September 2018). A Companion to African Cinema. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-119-09985-7.
^ Bisschoff, Lizelle; Peer, Stefanie Van de (14 November 2019). Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic. Routledge. p. 2016. ISBN 978-1-351-85470-2.
^ "Jyoti Mistry". University of Gothenburg. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
^ "JYOTI MISTRY". Zürcher Dokumentarfilmtagung (ZDOK) (in German). Retrieved 30 January 2025.
^ ^a ^b Domes, Damian (31 August 2021). "Jyoti Mistry". Fabulation for Future. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
^ Oboe, Annalisa (30 March 2011). Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures. Taylor & Francis. p. 312. ISBN 978-1-136-81173-9.
^ Pinther, Kerstin; Förster, Larissa; Hanussek, Christian (2012). Afropolis: City Media Art. Jacana Media. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-4314-0325-7.
^ "LONGING FOR EQUALITY: JYOTI MISTRY". Vienna Shorts. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

[:0-1] McCluskey, Audrey (1 October 2010). The Devil You Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa. University of Illinois Press. pp. 14, 102, 149. ISBN 978-0-252-09186-5.

[:1-2] "Jyoti Mistry". Screen Worlds. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

[3] Charlton, Ed (1 June 2021). Improvising Reconciliation: Confession after the Truth Commission. Liverpool University Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-80034-480-8.

[:2-4] "Director Jyoti Mistry on "Cause of Death" and the short form". Berlinale Shorts (in German). 25 February 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

[5] Ngcobo, Gabi (2011). Don't Panic. Jacana Media. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-920196-37-0.

[:3-6] "Jyoti Mistry". The Conversation. 18 August 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

[7] Mistry, Jyoti; Bisschoff, Lizelle (14 June 2022). "Editorial: decolonising film education". Film Education Journal. 5 (1). doi:10.14324/FEJ.05.1.01. ISSN 2515-7086.

[8] Mistry, Jyoti. "A Dry White Season: Justice Against the Law". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

[:4-9] "Jyoti Mistry". Eurozine. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

[10] Adeshina, Afolayan (28 February 2015). Auteuring Nollywood: Critical Perspectives on The Figurine. University Press, Nigeria. p. 411. ISBN 978-978-069-828-7.

[11] Harrow, Kenneth W.; Garritano, Carmela (18 September 2018). A Companion to African Cinema. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-119-09985-7.

[12] Bisschoff, Lizelle; Peer, Stefanie Van de (14 November 2019). Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic. Routledge. p. 2016. ISBN 978-1-351-85470-2.

[13] "Jyoti Mistry". University of Gothenburg. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

[14] "JYOTI MISTRY". Zürcher Dokumentarfilmtagung (ZDOK) (in German). Retrieved 30 January 2025.

[:5-15] Domes, Damian (31 August 2021). "Jyoti Mistry". Fabulation for Future. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

[16] Oboe, Annalisa (30 March 2011). Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures. Taylor & Francis. p. 312. ISBN 978-1-136-81173-9.

[17] Pinther, Kerstin; Förster, Larissa; Hanussek, Christian (2012). Afropolis: City Media Art. Jacana Media. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-4314-0325-7.

[18] "LONGING FOR EQUALITY: JYOTI MISTRY". Vienna Shorts. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

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