Max Bowens

Max Bowens is a filmmaker and PhD Candidate in Film and Visual Studies, with secondary fields in Anthropology and Critical Media Practice. His research concerns the relationship between art and biometrics, and has been supported by the Getty Predoctoral Fellowship, the Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, the Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Cora du Bois Fellowship, and the Harvard Film Study Center.

His films have screened at Cinéma du Réel, the Museum of the Moving Image, A.I.R. Gallery, Light Industry, Anthology Film Archives, and the Maryland Film Festival. Publications include Third Text, Media+Environment, Film-Philosophy, The Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform, Film Criticism, a chapter in Cinématérialismes: Nouvelles approches matérialistes de l’audiovisuel (Éditions Mimésis), as well as a forthcoming article in Senses of Cinema. He holds a M.St. from the University of Oxford and a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University.

Max is also an editor, having worked with directors such as Terrence Malick, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Zia Anger, Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens, C.W. Winter, Diana Peralta, and Cynthia Madansky, among others.