John Cowles Professor of Art and Anthropology Director, Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL); Director, Film Study Center Director of Graduate Studies (Spring 2022)
Castaing-Taylor is an anthropologist whose work conjugates art's negative capability with an ethnographic attachment to the flux of life and an engagement with the pressing ecological and political challenges of our day. His works include In and Out of Africa (1992, with Ilisa Barbash),... Read more about Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Guzzetti’s films include the feature-length Family Portrait Sittings (1975), the first in an autobiographical cycle that continued with Scenes from Childhood (1980) and Time Exposure (2012). Guzzetti collaborated with anthropologists Ákos Östör and Lina Fruzzetti on the documentaries Seed and Earth (1994) and Khalfan and Zanzibar (2000) and with Susan Meiselas and Richard Rogers on both Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family (1985) and the feature-length Pictures from a Revolution (1991). ... Read more about Alfred Guzzetti
Ernst Karel works with sound, including electroacoustic music, experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, and postproduction sound for nonfiction vilm [film/video], with an emphasis on observational cinema. His recent solo projects are edited/composed using unprocessed location recordings; in performance he sometimes combines these with analog electronics to create pieces which move between the abstract and the documentary.... Read more about Ernst Karel
Visiting Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies, 2021-22
Young Joo Lee is a multimedia artist from South Korea. Her work deals with personal narratives about her experiences of being an immigrant in Europe and the US, a woman, and a cultural nomad. In her recent moving image works, these personal narratives interweave... Read more about Young Joo Lee
Lingford has been making short animated films since studying fine art and art history at Middlesex (1987–1990) and animation at the MA level at the Royal College of Art (1990–92). Her films have been broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK, and have won many awards all over the world.... Read more about Ruth Lingford
Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies Administrative Director of the Film Study Center
Julie Mallozzi’s films explore the ways cultural traditions from around the globe intersect, hybridize, and are turned to new social purposes far from...
Robb Moss's most recent project, Containment, is about the disposition of nuclear waste for now and for the next 10,000 years. ... Read more about Robb Moss
Assistant Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
On leave 2021-2022
Karthik Pandian is an artist who works in films, exhibitions and public interventions to unsettle the ground of history. ... Read more about Karthik Pandian
Visiting Professor on Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Spring 2022
Verena Paravel is an anthropologist and filmmaker. Her academic and artistic interests encompass the ecology of urbanism, the environment, and the poetics and politics of the body. Her works include 7 Queens (2008), Foreign Parts (2010), Canst Thou Draw Out Leviathan with a Hook? (2012—2016), ... Read more about Verena Paravel
Visiting Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies, 2021-22 Interim Director of the Film Study Center and Director of Graduate Study for Critical Media Practice
Joana Pimenta is a filmmaker and writer from Portugal who lives and works in Lisbon, the U.S. and Brazil. Her latest film, AN AVIATION FIELD, premiered in the International Competiton at the 69th Locarno Film Festival, was screened in the Toronto International Film Festival,... Read more about Joana Pimenta
Visiting Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies, 2021-22
Dominga Sotomayor is a film director, writer and producer born in Santiago de Chile in 1985. Her first feature film Thursday till Sunday (2012) was developed at the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence, which won the Tiger Award in the 41º Rotterdam Film Festival and has been gaining international recognition ever since.... Read more about Dominga Sotomayor