Wenceslaus Mendes is a filmmaker with over 20 years of industry experience, who engages with video and technology in theatre and performance and conceptual and installation art projects that have traveled globally. He is a cinematographer and editor in advertising, broadcast television, and digital web, independently producing award-winning content. He is an independent researcher, with an art practice that engages with the politics of food, consumption, and the processes of 'knowledge' in its making and dissemination through building sensoriums. His research lies within Indigenous and tribal communities through shared concerns of land and water, environment, sustainability, and climate change; documenting practices, oral culture, and processes of ethno-technologies working with multimedia and mediums through a process of 'co-labor-abling'. Here, questions are raised and its process and outcomes are defined together and conjoined with the community, environment, and ecosystem from which the language of the work originates. For him, local (geospatial and temporal) and indigenous knowledge are both essential and critical to building an inclusive and sustainable future. His body of work also lies at the intersection between race and caste across the subcontinent of India. Here the projects closely examine incidents of discrimination and prejudice, purity and segregation, the making of labor, and the Indian prison system.