Magdalena Bermudez
Assistant Professor
Cinema
Research Interests
- The History of Technology
- Nonhuman Animals
- Essay Film
- Emerging Technologies
- Experimental Expository
Teaching Interests
- Film and the Archive
- Film and the Nonhuman
- Emerging Technologies
- Research-Based Filmmaking
- Found Footage Filmmaking
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Ariana T. Gerstein
Professor, Graduate Director
Cinema
Research Interests
- Alternative Processes
- Experimental Animation
- Documentary Approaches
- Projection Mapping
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Andrea Gyenge
Assistant Professor
Cinema
Research Interests
- Film Aesthetics
- Critical Theory and Continental Philosophy
- Theories of the Body (especially the mouth and orality)
- Sound Studies
- Queer Cinema and Media
Teaching Interests
- History and Theory of the Moving Image
- Critical Theory
- Queer Aesthetics
- Popular Media and Mass Culture
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Eli Horwatt
Lecturer
Cinema
Research Interests
- Documentary Ethics and Aesthetics
- Conceptual/Post-Minimal Art and Film
- Found Footage Film
- Institutional Critique
- Cinematic Ontology and Paracinematic Art
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Monteith P. McCollum
Undergraduate Director; Associate Professor
Cinema
Research Interests
- Experimental and Hybrid Documentary
- Sound Art and Electronic Music
- Historical explorations in sound and image science
- Environment
- Sound Mapping
Teaching Interests
- Non-Fiction and Experimental Film
- Sound Design
- Field Recording and Experimental Electronic Modular Synthesis
- Live Audio Visual Performance
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Daniel Murphy
Lecturer
Cinema
Research Interests
- Darkroom techniques and technologies
- Historical research
- Fabulation
- Environmental phenomena
- Chance operations
Teaching Interests
- Experimental filmmaking
- Found footage
- Digital/analog hybrid workflows
- Rephotography
- 16mm filmmaking
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Tomonari Nishikawa
Chair; Professor
Cinema
Research Interests
- Film and video art
- Film projection performance
- Film curation
- Structural film
- Minimalism in arts and music
Teaching Interests
- 16mm filmmaking
- Avant-garde and experimental film
- Expanded cinema
- Digital videomaking
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Armand Yervant Tufenkian
Lecturer
Cinema
Research Interests
- Relation and process
- Modernity, technology and history
- Environmental and critical humanities
- Philosophies of the image
- Labor and craft
Teaching Interests
- Histories of cinema and art
- Parafiction and poetics
- Documentary methodologies
- 16mm filmmaking
- Editing and montage
- Time and space
- Critique
- Film curation and programming
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Sofia Theodore-Pierce
Assistant Professor
Cinema
Research Interests
- Nonfiction poetics
- Experimental cinema
- Collage methodologies
- Personal cinema
- Artist film programming
Teaching Interests
- Nonfiction poetics
- Personal cinema
- Experimental narrative
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Brian K. Wall
Associate Professor
Cinema
Research Interests
- Critical Theory, Particularly that of Adorno and Benjamin and the Historical Avant Garde
- Film Noir
- German Expressionism and Weimar Cinema
- Paracinema
- Marxism
- Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology
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