Cinema Faculty

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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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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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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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