Field-Of-Study: Film

André Gaudreault

André Gaudreault (b. 1952) holds a Ph.D. in cinema from Université Paris 3–Sorbonne Nouvelle (1983). He is a full professor in the Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques at the Université de Montréal, where he heads the research group GRAFICS (Groupe de recherche sur l’avènement et la formation des institutions cinématographique et scénique—Research Group

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Yomi Braester

Yomi Braester is a scholar of modern literary and visual culture, with a special interest in China since 1949. After earning a Ph..D in Comparative Literature at Yale University in 1998, he was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley (1997–1998), taught at the University of Georgia (1998–2000), and is now Professor of Comparative Literature and

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Steven Ungar

Following studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cornell University, Steven Ungar’s teaching and research at Case Western Reserve and at Iowa have increasingly engaged topics in philosophy, history, and film linked to 19th- through 21st-century French literature.  A 1981 Camargo Foundation Fellowship supported completion of Ungar’s first book, Roland Barthes: The Professor of Desire

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David Thorne

David Thorne and Julia Meltzer, corecipients of a Guggenheim Fellowship in choreography, produce videos, photographs, installations, and published texts. From 1999 to 2003, their projects centered on secrecy, history, and memory. Current works focus on language, faith, and the idea of the future. Recent projects have been exhibited at Modern Art Oxford, Steve Turner Contemporary, PhotoCairo 4, Casino

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Kelly Reichardt

Born in Miami, Florida, Kelly Reichardt is a screenwriter, director, and editor whose body of work explores the changing rhythms and compositions of the American landscape. Her films depict narratives of the road and stories of those who navigate them, employing current political themes to offset or re-examine traditional movie myths and popular genres. Ms.

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Arturo Pérez Torres

Arturo Pérez Torres was born and raised in Mexico City. He studied film in San Francisco, California, and received a Master’s Degree in sociology in the Netherlands. After years of working in advertising he made his first documentary Wetback–The Undocumented Documentary (2005). The synopsis of this film was simple: Arturo Pérez Torres would go down with a

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Julia Meltzer

Julia Meltzer and David Thorne produce videos, photographs, installations, and published texts. From 1999 to 2003, their projects centered on secrecy, history, and memory. Current works focus on language, faith, and the idea of the future. Recent projects have been exhibited at Modern Art Oxford, Steve Turner Contemporary, PhotoCairo 4, Casino Luxembourg, the Walraff-Richartz Museum,

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Julia Loktev

Julia Loktev was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. When she was nine, her family immigrated to the United States, settling in Colorado. Ms. Loktev attended McGill University in Montreal, where she was a DJ at a campus-community radio station, which soon led to making her own audio art works, which soon led to film. She

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Henry Hills

Henry Hills has been making concise, intensely rhythmic experimental films since 1975, work which seeks abstraction within sharply focused naturalistic imagery, the eternal within the temporal, and the ethereal within the mundane, promoting an active attentiveness through a relentlessly concentrated montage in order to spotlight and encourage the unique, the individual, and the heterogeneous, with

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Sam Kauffmann

Sam Kauffmann is a professor of film at Boston University’s College of Communication where he teaches film and video production and digital editing classes. In 2006, he was a Fulbright Senior Specialist, teaching at the National University of Rwanda. Upon his return to the States he made the film Massacre at Murambi, which aired nationally

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Danae Elon

Danae Elon, an award-winning documentary producer, director, and cinematographer, grew up in Jerusalem and Italy, and today lives in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from with honors from NYU’s Tisch film school in 1995, winning awards such as the National Eastman Scholarship as well as her class award for Consistent Excellence in Cinematography. Her first

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Lynn Hershman Leeson

Lynn Hershman Leeson is perhaps the most influential woman working in new media today. Her work in photography, video, installation, interactive and net-based media have all been recognized with much acclaim. Her 53 videotapes and 7 interactive installations have garnered many international awards, including First Prize Vigo, Spain and First Prize Crystal Trophy, Montbelliard, France.

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Ramin Bahrani

Born in North Carolina in 1975 and raised there, Ramin Bahrani is a writer, director, and editor of feature fiction films who received his B.A. in film studies from Columbia University in New York City. He made several short films culminating in Backgammon (1998) before moving to his parents’ homeland of Iran for three years where

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David Zeiger

Filmmaker David Zeiger captures moments of transition, oftentimes traumatic transition. He began his career as a photographer in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was then living, having turned to that medium as a means of dealing with the sudden death of his elder son, Michael, at the age of nine in 1986. As a favor to

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Matt Wolf

Matt Wolf is a filmmaker and writer in New York.  His critically acclaimed and award-winning feature documentary Wild Combination, about the avant-garde cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell, premiered at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival.  It played in over sixty international film festivals, museums, and cinemas (Edinburgh, IFC Center, MoMA, ICA London) and was included

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David Van Taylor

Documentarian David Van Taylor is known for films that tackle controversial subjects in an unusually empathetic and nonjudgmental way. In another director’s hands Mr. Van Taylor’s first documentary, Dream Deceivers (1992), could have devolved into mockery of the story’s principal players, who sue the band Judas Priest for allegedly mesmerizing their sons into a suicide

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Rodney Evans

Rodney Evans holds a B.F.A. in modern culture and media/film production from Brown University and an M.F.A. in film production from the California Institute of the Arts.  He has spent the past thirteen years creating films and videos that explore the intersection of race, class, sexuality, and history in the lives of African-Americans.  Mr. Evans is the recipient

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Cao Guimarães

Cao Guimarães, filmmaker and visual artist, was born in 1965 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where he lives and works. He studied philosophy at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and completed a Masters of Arts in photographic studies at Westminster University of London. Since the end of the 1980s he has been showing his work

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Silvia Malagrino

Silvia Malagrino is a photographer and filmmaker, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She lives and works in Chicago, and is a Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to the Guggenheim Fellowship, she is the recipient of a fellowship from the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender

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