Eden Batki

Eden Batki is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, photographer, and chef based in Los Angeles, working fluidly across food, foraging, photography, and film as connected forms of storytelling rooted in land and ecology. She holds a BFA in Photography, and her production and editorial work has appeared with Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown, The New York Times Magazine, and Monocle.

Approach. Batki treats food and image-making as a single sensory practice — she has toured her film paired with foraged dinners — favoring intimate, experimental encounters with the natural world.

Selected. Weedeater (2016), the feature documentary she directed and shot, a portrait of urban forager and radical ecologist Nance Klehm, screened across the U.S. with foraged-dinner events. At Ontopo's 2016 Catskill Zendo retreat she screened the film.

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Weedeater
Vimeo
Interview (Shoutout LA)