Irene Gustafson’s research interests are located very broadly within visual culture studies with an emphasis on film/video theory and production. Her specific areas of research are: non-fiction film/video, experimental film/video, and queer and sexuality studies.
FILM/VIDEO
reimagining the city as our own [in collaboration with Skywatchers, 2020, digital video, 20 min.
Cinematographer, Editor
Close [2020, digital video, 50min.]
Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Facing the Subject: On Observation [2016, digital video, 25 min.]
Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Portrait of Turner [2009, digital video, 55 min.]
Producer, Director, Editor
Incoming Messages [2008, digital video, 25 min.]
Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor,
Queens of Heart [2006, digital video]
Co-writer, Editing Advisor
Screen Test No.1, No.2, No.3 [1998-2001, film/video, 12 min.]
Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor,
Velvets [1999, film/video, 25 min.]
Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor
Distracted [1997, video, 15 min.]
Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor
WRITING abd CURATION
Poetics + Politics: Against Story 2019 http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/poetics-politics-against-story
“On the Importance of Being Two-Faced” in Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 4(1) Spring 2016
“How Much is That Doggy in the Window” in Animal Housing and Human-Animals Relations: Politics, Practices and Infrastructures (Routledge: Spring 2016)
“Putting Things to the Test: Re-considering Portrait of Jason (1967)” Camera Obscura 77, vol. 26, no. 2 (Winter 2011)
“Notes on Screen Testing” Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 6, no.1 (Spring 2007)
“Longing at the Found and Lost: Telephones with a Memory” Spectator, Vol.26, no.2 (Spring 2006)
Video Production, Non-fiction history and theory, Gender and Queer Studies, Animal Studies, Critical Practices