I am a filmmaker, researcher and writer with a P.h.D. in Artistic Studies 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 video essay 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 two books on cinema (La crítica es una escuela in 2022; Guayaquil en ruinas in 2023).
Contact: [email protected]
SHORT CUT TO RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
"A Cinema of Reparations: Alice Diop in Conversation with Kevin B. Lee and Libertad Gills", Locarno Film Festival, March 15th, 2024.
STARS DICTIONARY: LÉA SEYDOUX. Tecmerin. Revista de ensayos audiovisuales, N.11 2023 (1).
Guayaquil en ruinas: Cartografía fílmica de una ciudad, Guayaquil: Guayaquil Analógico/Premio Mariano Aguilera, 2023.
“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.
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.
EXTERNAL LINKS:
Guayaquil Analógico (film collective)
Rialécticas - Jornadas Cinematográficas de Guayaquil (film programming)
Fuera de Campo Film Journal
[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies