Dr. Alexandra D’Onofrio

Alexandra D’Onofrio is a visual anthropologist, documentary filmmaker, and community arts facilitator whose work explores experiences of migration through collaborative practices of filmmaking, animation, theatre, and storytelling. Drawing on methods inspired by Theatre of the Oppressed, PhotoVoice, and Participatory Video, her practice investigates the spaces between imagination, memory, and lived experience in contexts of migration and critical events. She completed her PhD in Anthropology, Media, and Performance at the University of Manchester in 2017, based on a collaborative project with Egyptian men who had crossed the Mediterranean. Her award-winning ethnographic film It was Tomorrow (2018) is distributed by the Royal Anthropological Institute, and her forthcoming monograph Future Perfect: An imaginative ethnography of Mediterranean illegalised migration will be published by Manchester University Press in 2026. She collaborates with the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester, and a number of other MA programmes and Summer Schools in Europe where she teaches visual and social anthropology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.