Aleksander Domanski
Aleks Domanski is a filmmaker, photographer and biologist based in Bristol, UK. He holds a PhD in neurobiology from the University of Edinburgh and for the last 15 years has worked across the world as an animal cognitive behaviour scientist and filmmaker. His passion is documenting how environment shapes flexible animal behaviour, using film to explore how land use policy, environmental and climate change can influence biodiversity by affecting choices underpinning animal migration, social dynamics and resource exploration.
Aleks has worked with the BBC, UK charities, Universities and international conservation NGOs as a wildlife cinematographer and documentary producer/director. Recent projects include herd social dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa, grassland biodiversity, river pollution and rewilding of UK waterways. A forthcoming collaborative film explores the parallel fates of winter sports and cold-adapted mountain wildlife in the Scottish Highlands.
Aleks is technically innovative and as a previous Turing Fellow and research fellow in microscopy developed tools for biodiversity analysis and camera technology to reveal the unseen around us, ranging from the macro and microsopic level to large animal groups in the dark. As a conservation advocate, he leads ethical wildlife adventures, lectures and teaches ecology and filmmaking.
His work blends visual and scientific storytelling, and sparks wonder and compassion for the natural world by merging human and wildlife narratives.