About
Joshua Bonnetta is a Canadian sound artist and filmmaker based in Munich, Germany. Working across installation, publication, and traditional film exhibition his artistic practice conceives of cinema as a sound forward medium historically situated in relation to both film history and a greater aggregate of sonic arts. A continuum throughout his career has been the creative exploration of environmental sound through cinematic frameworks, and re-imagining what could constitute site-specific sound in documentary film. His upcoming projects explore the environmental effects of anthropogenic noise through the world of scientific listening, from the inner geological sounds of mountains to the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
His work has been shown at Art of the Real, The Berlinale, BFI London Film Festival, Cinema du Reél, Institute of Contemporary Art (London), IDFA Amsterdam, Images Festival, Museum of Modern Art (New York), New York Film Festival, Taipei Biennale, Toronto International Film Fes- tival, Whitechapel Gallery, and at various other festivals, museums, and galleries internationally. His work has been written about in Art Forum, Cinemascope, Frieze,The Guardian, The New York Times, Pitchfork, and Sight & Sound
His sound works are published by Shelter Press and Canti Magnetici and his films are distributed by The Cinema Guild and Arsenal Institute für Film und Video Kunst.
He is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in the Creative Arts.