Alexis Mitchell is a Toronto-based media artist whose video works and documentaries have screened at festivals and in galleries across 5 continents.  She has been creating performative documentary and hybrid visual works that explore queerness, memory, performativity, space, architecture, and nuanced understandings of contemporary Jewish identity and politics. Alexis recently completed an MFA, under the guidance of John Greyson, in Film and Video Production at York University.

Within the realm of body politics, Alexis followed the “Fat Femme Mafia” in a documentary called Rubb My Chubb: Fat Activism and the Fat Femme Mafia, as well as created a fat-positive photo book entitled, It Ain’t Over: Fat Photos and Politics of Size. She worked alongside media-artist Tori Foster to create Circus Geeks & Sideshow Freaks, a video documentary following Toronto’s queer clown duo “The Hobo Homos”. Other collaborations include: a commissioned video project with Foster for Toronto Pride entitled Queeropolis: Toronto 1972-2008  - a topological study of the queer, urban fabric of Toronto, as well as a 3-part video installation queering notions of homeland and diaspora with Sharlene Bamboat entitled Inextricable. Her MFA thesis project entitled CAMP merges architectural and queer theory to forge possible acts of transgression within contemporary Jewish culture and politics.