Carol Dysinger

Biography

Carol Dysinger is a filmmaker, writer, artist, and educator, whose contemporary work offers a counter-narrative to traditional stories of conflict. She is in the midst of a trilogy on Afghanistan and America post 9/11.

In 2005, she traveled solo to Afghanistan with camera in hand to make her feature directorial debut, Camp Victory, Afghanistan, which screened at MOMA, SXSW, Human Rights Watch and at The Hague. One Bullet Afghanistan is the second in the trilogy about the human impact of international conflict post 9/11 currently being completed in Denmark. She received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2018, a new work in multimedia installation, which draws from decades of memoirs and family history, footage shot over 15 years in Afghanistan, and brings it together to take down the veil between human experience, story, and history.

Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you’re a girl) is Carol’s love letter to the young girls of Afghanistan, the boldest, bravest, funniest people she’s ever met.