Mattijs van de Port (b. 1966, the Netherlands) is a visual anthropologist, writer and filmmaker whose cinematic practice emerges from fieldwork in Serbia, the Netherlands and Brazil. Professor at the University of Amsterdam with a PhD in cultural anthropology, his cinematic works —including Saborear Frutas Brasileiras (2013), The Possibility of Spirits (2016), Knots and Holes (2018) and The Body Won’t Close (2021)—are ethnographic essay films that explore sensual encounters, cultural visuality and temporal thresholds. His monographs and films interrogate how everyday material infrastructures and religious practices shape the lived real.