A moving image artist and practitioner, the films and installations of Karina Griffith explore the themes of fear and fantasy, often focusing on how they relate to belonging. In 2014, Galerie Myrtis named her an “International Artist to Watch.” She is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute where her research on Black authorship in German cinema interacts with theories of affect, intersectionality and creolization. She has written for Women in German Studies’ Special Online Section on Race and Inclusivity and IndieWire’s Shadow & Act.

During Ballhaus Naunynstrasse’s Black perspective festival We Are Tomorrow: Visions and Retrospection on Occasion of the 1884 Berlin Conference, she moderated artist talks and co-directed a special edition of the Kiez-Monatsschau together with Amanda Mukasonga and Sebastian Fleary. In 2017 she curates Republik Repair: Ten Points, Ten Demands, one Festival. Reporatory Imaginings from Black Berlin.