Department/College/UnitArts Division

TitleAssociate Professor

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationFeminist Studies Department
Digital Arts and New Media

Web Sitehttps://www.irenegustafson.com/

Primary Office LocationCommunications Building
134

Office HoursTues 10-11am and by appointment; https://irenegustafson.youcanbook.me/

Mail StopFilm and Digital Media

Biography, Education and Training

M.F.A., Radio/TV/Film, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
B.A., The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

Summary of Expertise

Non-fiction prouction, history and theory; Essayistsic production; Gender and Queer Studies; 

Research Interests

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, essayistic production, experimental film/video, and queer and sexuality studies. 

Teaching Interests

Film + Video Production, Producing across the boundaries between “theory” and “practice”, Non-fiction, Gender and Queer Studies

Selected Exhibitions

• Close [2024, digital video, 80 min]
• Community Grand Rounds [2020-2024]
• Reimagining The City [2020, digital video, 20 minmin]
• Facing the Subject [2016, 25 min]
• 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.] co-Producer, co-writer, cinemtagrapher, co-editor
• Velvets [1999, film/video, 25 min.] Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor
• Distracted [1997, video, 15 min.] Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor

Selected Publications

“The feminist narrative: analysing the location of action” Review for [In]Transition 10.1 May/June 2023

 Invited

“Beyond the Screen #NoFilter“ Review for [In]Transition 6.1. March/April 2019.             http://mediacommons.org/intransition/beyond-screen-nofilter  Invited

“On the Importance of Being Two-Faced” Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 4 (1) Spring 2016

http://www.teachingmedia.org/on-the-importance-of-being-two-faced-production-in-the-classroom/

Peer Reviewed. 

“How Much is That Doggy in the Window?: The Aesthetics of Animal Shelter Display” in Animal Housing and Human-Animals Relations: Politics, Practices and Infrastructures. Ed. Bjørkdahl and Druglitrø (NYC: Routledge) Spring 2016, Peer Reviewed. 

“The Flaherty Film Seminar “Review for The Moving Image Journal (12:1) Winter 2012. Invited

“Putting Things to the Test: Re-considering Portrait of Jason (1967),” Camera Obscura 77, vol. 26, no. 2 (Winter 2011) Peer Reviewed

“Notes on Screen Testing” Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2007), 201-208

      (Special Issue: “Detritus and the Moving Image”) Co-authored with Julia Zay, Peer Reviewed

“Longing at the Found and Lost: Telephones with a Memory” Spectator, Volume 26, No. 2 (Spring 2006), 

      64-69. (Special Issue--Ephemeral Cinema, Invisible Media: Sound and Image at the Edge of Awareness)

“Speak Out: Interview with Marlon Riggs” The Portland Alliance, Vol. 11, No. 12 (December 1992)