Laurent Van Lancker is a filmmaker and anthropologist. His work ranges from experimental travel diaries to film and academic work that focuses on the sensorial and imaginary possibilities of documentary. One of the founders of Polymorfilms and VOX (media activist collective), his award-winning work, such as Surya (2007), has been widely screened and shown on television and at world-leading art centres. He is a Lecturer at INSAS (Belgian National Film School), SIC (Sound Image Culture), and at the MA in Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie University Berlin. He also runs AV workshops and curates film programmes for Cinama Nova in Brussels.