Benny Shaffer is a filmmaker and curator whose projects explore the intersections of socially engaged art, media ecologies, and experimental cinema. His film and video works have been exhibited at various film festivals and art spaces in Asia, Europe, and North America. He received his PhD in Social Anthropology and Critical Media Practice from Harvard University, where he was a Film Study Center fellow and a member of the Sensory Ethnography Lab. He has served as the co-director of Revolutions Per Minute Festival in Boston, and as a board member of Pittsburgh Sound + Image.