I am a filmmaker, researcher and writer with a P.h.D. in Art, Literature and Culture from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with a dissertation on experimental archival cinema.
After teaching film and criticism at the Universidad de las Artes in Ecuador between 2015-2023, I am now a Post-doc Researcher for the Future of Cinema & the Audiovisual Arts at the Università della Svizzera italiana, in partnership with Locarno Film Festival.
My recent film and videographic work has screened at Prismatic Ground, Cámara Lúcida, MUTA, Transcinema, UltraCinema, and Frontera Sur, and my writing on film has been published in Senses of Cinema, Short Film Studies, desistfilm, Kino Slang, La vida útil, La Furia Umana, as well as in catalogues and bonus materials for film festivals including Berlinale, Jeonju, and Locarno. I am also the co-director of Fuera de Campo and Associate Editor at [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, and author of La crítica es una escuela (2022) and Guayaquil en ruinas (2023).
Contact: [email protected]
SHORT-CUT TO RECENT PUBLICATIONS
ON VIDEOGRAPHIC CRITICISM, VIDEO ESSAYS & ACADEMIC FILMMAKING:
Co-Editor with Catherine Grant and Alan O’Leary, Academic Quarter | Akademisk kvarter, “Academic Filmmaking in the New Humanities: Video Essays,” vol. 28, 2024. https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/issue/view/523
Co-Editor with Catherine Grant and Alan O’Leary, Academic Quarter | Akademisk kvarter, “Academic Filmmaking in the New Humanities: Articles,” vol. 27, 2024. https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/issue/view/522
"Aging Faces, Voice, and Barbara Steele's Revenge", [in]Transition 11(3), Special Issue: Women and Aging, ed. Barbara Zecchi, 2024.
Making Video Essays About Alice Diop, The Video Essay Podcast, May 1, 2024.
ON LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA & EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING:
Co-Author with Andrés Dávila and Carlos Terán Vargas. "Professor-artist and professor-researcher: Making the case for experimental filmmaking as research in the academic context of Ecuador's Universidad de las Artes", Academic Quarter | Akademisk kvarter, “Academic Filmmaking in the New Humanities: Articles,” vol. 27, 2024.
“Notes Towards a History of Amateur Filmmaking in Guayaquil”, Small(er) Cinemas of the Andes: New Aesthetics, Practices and Platforms, Eds. Diana Coryat, Christian León and Noah Zweig, Springer International Publishing, 2023.
Co-Editor with Martín Baus. Guayaquil en ruinas: Cartografía fílmica de una ciudad, Guayaquil: Guayaquil Analógico/Premio Mariano Aguilera, 2023.
La crítica es una escuela: Conversaciones sobre la crítica de cine en América Latina, Guayaquil: UArtes Ediciones, 2022.
Included in Sabzian's New Book Releases of Autumn 2022. Download book here.
INTERVIEWS WITH FILMMAKERS:
A Cinema of Reparations: Alice Diop in Conversation with Kevin B. Lee and Libertad Gills, Locarno Film Festival, March 15th, 2024.
Locarno 2024: Listening Films: A Conversation with Courtney Stephens, desistfilm, August 22nd, 2024.
Locarno 2024: Entrevista a Klaudia Reynicke, desistfilm, August 7th, 2024.
EXTERNAL LINKS
Guayaquil Analógico
Rialécticas - Jornadas Cinematográficas de Guayaquil
Fuera de Campo Film Journal
[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies