Wency Mendes is a documentary filmmaker, artist, and independent researcher working across journalism, theatre, and immersive media. His practice engages with indigenous and tribal communities around land, water, and climate justice. He documents oral cultures, ethno-technologies, and food politics while building sensoriums that reimagine how knowledge is made and shared.

His research explores intersections of caste and race, labour, incarceration, and discrimination across India. Through a collaborative methodology of “co-labour-abling”, he develops work rooted in the community and ecology from which it emerges, through shared authorship and geospatial grounding.