Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. Povinelli is one of the founding members of the Karrabing Film Collective. The Karrabing Film Collective has won numerous awards including the 2021 Eye Award from the Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam. Her individual art works have been shown Prometeo Gallery, Milan; ar/ge gallery, Bolzano; the Biennale Gherdëina; and MADRE, Naples. A series of her drawings reimagining prehistory as a series of colonial sedimentations was part of the permanent reopening of the Museo delle Civiltà, Rome, in 2022.
The Inheritance is a three-act video montage essay on inheritance as an accumulation of racial and settler dispossessions. Seeking to intervene in what Povinelli has called the current white counter-reformation of white nativism, The Inheritance pivots the ideas and affects of history, inheritance, and social identity against the sedimentations of white supremacy and settler colonialism through a retelling of the…