Solomon Mekonen is an Oslo-based filmmaker and a PhD research fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, interested in visual storytelling grounded in anthropology. He has a master’s degree in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin.
Videos
Winner Best Student Film The 29th International Festival of Ethnological Film
Belgrade
Winner The Audience Award for Best short Film Afrika Film Festival Köln
Köln
Winner Short Film Audience Choice Africa World Documentary Film Festival Trinidad Venue
Article
Mekonen, Solomon (2021). I Am Black Now: A Phenomenologically Grounded Autoethnography of Becoming Black in Berlin. In Kohl, Marie-Anne (Ed.), Under Construction: Performing Critical Identity. MDPI Books. doi: 10.3390/books978-3-03897-500-7-1.