Contributors
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Mitra Moin
Mitra Moin graduated with distinction from Concordia University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in 2016. Born and raised in Washington, D.C. by a French mother and an Iranian father, she attended the French International School until 2013, where she took cinema classes. She has interned at various renowned news organization such as WAMU/NPR at The Diane Rehm Show, and the Washington Report, where several of her articles were published. She hopes to work in broadcast journalism in the future.
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Tamas Molnar
Tamas Molnar is currently completing an MA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, Montreal. He holds a Graduate Diploma and a BA in Media Studies from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research interests include the relationship between media texts and the lived experiences of built environments; the links between visual aesthetics and the spectatorial gaze in environmental communication and the social and cultural aspects of media piracy in the pre-internet age. In his free time Tamas makes stop motion animation films, goes cycling or climbs mountains.
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Felix Monguilot Benzal
Felix Monguilot Benzal is a Spanish Art Historian with a specialization in cinema, education and 20th Century art. He completed his Ph.D program at the University of Murcia, Spain in 2015. For several years, Monguilot had been working for institutions in the Italian art world, both as researcher and art project coordinator. He has published and presented widely in a number of different countries and at a variety of institutions. He also received several fellowships and awards, including the Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (2012-2013).
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Isabelle Morissette
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Mélanie Morrissette
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Trevor Mowchun
Trevor Mowchun is a Ph.D candidate in the Humanities interdisciplinary program at Concordia University and feature filmmaker currently based in Montreal. He completed his Masters in film studies also at Concordia where he wrote his thesis on cinematic contingency. His most recent scholarly projects are on “time narratives” (with an extensive reading of Jacques Tati’s Play Time), the concept of experience in the cinema of Stan Brakhage, cinematic automatism, and a Nietzsche inspired analysis of Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. In his dissertation entitled Metaphysics and the Moving Image, he attempts to show that various philosophical questions or problems, and even significant movements and turning points in the history of Western philosophy as a whole, have a kind of quotidian grounding and expression in the medium of film. His essays have been published in the journals Senses of Cinema, Film International and Evental Aesthetics. On the creative side he recently completed his first feature film called World to Come which has screened in festivals throughout North America.
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Joshua Murphy
Joshua Murphy recently graduated with distinction from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal, where he completed a Specialization in Film Studies and a minor in being a teacher’s pet. He is interested in the social impact of entertainment media, particularly the burgeoning field of interactive media (video games). He greatly admires the works of Stanley Kubrick, Ousmane Sembene, and Tim Schafer. He believes that a great film can save the world.
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Elya Myers
Elya Myers is a Multimedia Journalist, Writer, Researcher & Media Subject Matter Expert.
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Francois Nadeau
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Solomon Nagler
Solomon Nagler’s films have been featured in Retrospectives at Kino Arsenal in Berlin, Winnipeg Cinematheque, Excentris Cinema in Montreal, the Festival de le Cinéma Different in Paris, The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, The Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa, Robert Heald Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand, The Artist Film Workshop in Melbourne, Australia and the Cinematheque Quebecoise. His work also includes 16mm celluloid installations that engage with experimental architecture in galleries and public space. These works have been exhibited at the IAM Gallery in Berlin, Toronto International Film Festival, 8-11 Gallery (Toronto), Artspace Gallery (Sydney, Australia), Send and Receive Festival of Sound (Winnipeg) and The Halifax Independent Filmmakers’ Festival. Originally from Winnipeg, Solomon Nagler is co-founder of WNDX: Festival of the Moving Image in Winnipeg and currently lives in Halifax where he is a professor of film production at NSCAD University.
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Yaelim Nam
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Vincenzo Nappi
Vincenzo Nappi is an award-winning screenwriter and director based in Montreal, Quebec. He is best known for making Canuxploitation films that criticize Canadian politics through the horror genre. He holds a BFA in Film Studies from Concordia University and is the Canadian short film programmer at the Fantasia International Film Festival.
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David Neo
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Tim Newman
Tim Newman specializes in Canadian documentary cinema with a particular interest in the evolution of a West Coast documentary tradition that has produced internationally renown filmmakers such as Allan King. He is a graduate of the MA program in Film Studies at York University where his research examined the collaborative models within two related filmmaking institutions: the CBUT Vancouver Film Unit and Allan King Associates. Currently, he is a doctoral student in the Arts Education program within the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. There he is expanding his research into the sociology of the arts with an emphasis on how creative interchanges amongst artists and intellectuals innovate aesthetic practices that, in turn, serve to demarcate artistic institutions.
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James Newton
James Newton is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent, and at Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK. He is currently researching Anarchism and Cinema. His other research interests include political cinema, Horror, the Avant-Garde, Spaghetti Westerns, and documentary. James is also an independent filmmaker whose work encompasses both narrative and experimental forms.
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Martin F. Norden
Martin F. Norden teaches film history/theory/criticism and screenwriting as Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is Book Review Editor for the Journal of Popular Film & Television and the author of more than 90 publications on moving-image media. His anthology, The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television (Editions Rodopi), and a Japanese translation of his The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies (Akashi Shoten) are forthcoming.
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Emer O’Toole
Emer O'Toole is a prof at Concordia University, where she teaches theatre, performance, and film in the Irish Studies department. She is author of Girls Will Be Girls (Orion: 2015), a funny introduction to academic theories of gender, and Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change (Routledge: 2023), an exploration of the relationship between activism and aesthetics on the Irish stage. Emer has contributed to a wide variety of publications, including The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Independent, Paper Visual Art, Winter Pages, Mirror Lamp Press, and Somesuch Stories. Her work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Icelandic, and Korean. She is the proud custodian of two beautiful little boys, one handsome Frenchman, and a very ugly cat.
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Stefano Odorico
Stefano Odorico is a documentary filmmaker and a PhD candidate in Film Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. He is currently working on his doctoral research based in documentary studies and spectatorship, focusing on four directors: Herzog, Morris, Keiller and De Seta. His research interests include film theory, semiotics, linguistics, film technology, documentary and urban spaces. Odorico teaches Film Practice at University College Cork.
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Claudy op den Kemp
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Sacha Orenstein
Sacha Orenstein is a Film and Music Scholar, writer and musician from Montreal Canada. His interests include Hong Kong film, Japanese Film & Animation, Afro-Futurism, Hip-Hop and Electronic Music and Communications theory. He is currently working on a number of projects and consulting in the private sector.
