Bio

Elida Schogt is an award-winning filmmaker and media artist whose work mines personal experience and questions power systems. She is best known for her experimental short documentary Zyklon Portrait. described by The Toronto Star as “elegantly haunting and perhaps the most visually lush film about the Holocaust ever made.” She holds an MA in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research (NYC) and a studio-based PhD in Visual Arts from York University. 52 Weeks, 52 Women. Artists., her 2021 social media project, celebrates overlooked voices and regions.