Sarah Shamash is an artist-researcher with a PhD on an archive of films in Brazil known as Vídeo nas aldeias. Her artworks comprise the use of media in a wide variety of formats, such as installation, documentary, sound, and performance. Her works have been shown in curated exhibitions and film festivals internationally. She teaches film studies and is an independent curator. Her work as an artist, researcher, educator, and curator form part of an interconnected critical media art praxes. She lives on the unsurrendered territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh First Nations in what is known as Vancouver.