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PhD Students

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Through her research, Yasmine Benabdallah explores questions of decolonial filmmaking, in particular in the context of Moroccan, North African, and Arab cinema. She approaches this question through work with archive, memory, language, indigenous epistemologies, and collaborative practices.
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Histories and theories of ecology, relationships of human and plant species seen through the lens of physical scale and time scale, and ways to catalyze us to protect biodiversity.
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experimental media and art; statecraft and the built environment; political economy of machinic/nonhuman sensing.
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Critical Media Practice, Performance Studies, Directing, Film Theory and Historiography, Postcolonial Studies, Narrative Theory, Screenwriting, Latin American and Caribbean Cinemas, Film and Memory
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Research interests: Science Fiction, Media Representation of Law and Punishment, Futurism, Labor, Abolition and Transformative Justice, Cyborg Theory, Fandom Studies, Gender and Technology, Representation of the Other
Gonzalo Galetto
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Other-than-human and human relations, environmental conservation, film and media installations.
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Intersection of art and politics, treating image making as steeped in colonial pasts and modern surveillance states, legacies of trauma and conflict in experimental documentary and performance practices from the Middle East and North Africa and their diaspora.
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experimental documentary filmmaking, landscape, topographies, more-than-human collaborations, film materiality, embodied narratives, labor activism
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Documentary filmmaker, organizer and educator. Exploring ethics and politics through process and form. Centered around questions of landscape, memory, time, speculative nonfiction, co-existence, capitalism, interdependency.
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Storytelling, Smartphones, Speculative Design, Architectural Space, Urban Studies, Immersive Environments, Forensic Architecture, Critical Geographies, Digital Mapping, Multimedia Storytelling, Desire, Consumption, Eroticism and Sexuality, Feminist and Queer Theory, Augmented Reality
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Media Sport Studies, Documentary and Experimental Cinemas, Fan Studies, Visual Anthropology, Essay Film, Cultural Studies, Film/Video Curating, Non-Theatrical Film and Exhibition, Microcinemas, Artist-Run Film Labs and Processes, Archives
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Sound studies, diaspora studies, ethnomusicology, decolonial studies, audio technology, ethnographic research
Hans Kuzmich
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Abolition and transformative justice; feminist, queer and trans studies; political and libidinal economies of violence; documentary and experimental film
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Visual culture and sociopolitical evolution in the Middle East, and the role of the arts, including documentary making, in visualizing political, social, and cultural changes in the region.
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Video artist and documentary / experimental filmmaker. Deals with subjects related to gender roles, sexuality and national identity, and the relations between these three. Her film The Men behind the Wall won the Golden Bear Award for best short film and screened worldwide.
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Queer theory, community organizing, experimental cinema, film festival studies, printed matter, HIV/AIDS, porn studies, media technologies, fan cultures , performance studies, contemporary art criticism, avant-garde queer musicology, experimental literature, “offline” cultures.
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Portrait of Esra Ozban
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Film festivals, queer cinema, collective memory, film theatres, archival studies, counter-hegemonic memory, film programming, gender/sexuality studies
Black and White Headshot
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documentary filmmaking, history, and theory; feminist archival practices; experimental film; experimental ethnography; performative and participatory nonfiction; autotheoretical interdisciplinarities; landscape cinema; epistolary cinema; essay film documentary theatre; artistic practices of legacies
Amy Reid Headshot
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Formative Feminist Filmmaking, Transnational and Counter Cinematic Movements, Participatory Documentary Practices
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Allen Riley is an electronic media artist and educator working in participatory video and games. He designs hands-on learning programs at Beam Center and builds arcade cabinets with Death by Audio Arcade in Brooklyn, NY.
Lior Shamriz
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Research Interests: Transnational Cinema, Experimental Cinema, Palestine/Israel, West Asia, Mizrahi Jews, Queer Cinema, Film as Performance, Early Photography
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catharsis and trauma in media, how narratives, facilitated by immersive and interactive technology, create opportunities for self-reflection
Image of Kelly Sky
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Environmental Science; Digital Art; Mapping; Documentary Filmmaking
Shirin Towfiq
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Historiography of Iranian Diaspora, cultural memory, archival silences, translation, sound studies, multimedia storytelling, neglected histories, video installation, embodied archives, transnational migration, family histories, legacies of trauma, vernacular photography, everyday performances, Middl
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translation as a method of working with images and sound in articulations of catastrophes
Darren Wallace
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Afropessimism and the libidinal economy of desire in U.S. cinemas, Sex Work, Labor and Alienation, Liberation Theology, Queer Theory, Critical Theory, Oral Tradition, Indigenous Narratology, Decolonial Aesthetics, Social Cinema of the Cppressed, Hip Hop, ethnomusicology and cinematic temporality
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