Contributors
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Simon Galiero
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Sandra Gallant
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Patrick Galvan
Patrick Galvan is a freelance film journalist who specializes in Japanese and early Chinese cinema. His articles, which include analyses of individual films as well as comprehensive retrospectives on the careers of certain artists, have appeared in online publications such as SYFY WIRE, Toho Kingdom, and Our Culture Mag. He’s also contributed to The Lost Films Fanzine and is the author of the book Ruan Lingyu: Her Life and Career (2022).
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Amir Ganjavie
Fascinated by the issue of alternative and utopian space in cinema and architecture, Amir Ganjavie has published widely about cinema, architecture and cultural studies. He has recently co-edited a special volume on alternative Iranian cinema for Film International and edited Humanism of the Other, an essay collection on the Dardenne brothers (in Persian). His most recent contribution is an article on the meaning of space and utopia in cinema by analysing the films of Tsai Ming-Liang.
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Greta Gard
Greta Gard is a graduate from the University of Oxford with a Masters in Film Aesthetics. Her research interests include psychedelic cinema, a contemporary renaissance in the horror genre and aesthetics of beauty, representation and girlhood. She currently works behind the scenes on the “Girls on Film” podcast, reviewing films from a female perspective.
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Daniel Garrett
Daniel Garrett, a child of the American south, Louisiana, where he grew up reading, taking photographs, and enjoying fishing and a good summer barbecue. Daniel moved to New York and became a graduate of the New School for Social Research, was an intern at Africa Report, poetry editor for the male feminist magazine Changing Men, founded and acted as principal organizer of the Cultural Politics Discussion Group at ABC No Rio and Poets House, wrote about painter Henry Tanner for Art & Antiques, and organized the first interdepartmental environmental justice meeting at Audubon. Long interested in human complexity, intelligence, experiment, and cultural diversity, Garrett has researched various cultures, and he wrote about fiction and poetry for World Literature Today and international film for Offscreen, and has done music reviews that constitute a history of popular music for The Compulsive Reader. His work has appeared as well in The African, All About Jazz, American Book Review, Black Film Review, Cinetext, Contact II, Film International, The Humanist, Hyphen, Illuminations, Muse Apprentice Guild, Option, Pop Matters, Quarterly Black Review of Books, Rain Taxi, Red River Review, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Wax Poetics. He returned to the south, where he worked on philosophical fiction, the novel A Stranger on Earth.
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Dorothy Geller
Dorothy Geller is an active avant/experimental musician based in Montreal who explores trauma and pathos for creative expression. She received her PhD in 2007 from the George Washington University and is currently a Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University where she is revising her dissertation into a manuscript that links concepts of informal and unpaid labor in materialist feminism to musical work.
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David George Menard
David George Menard is a Polymath Physicist and Filmmaker, a Physics MSc graduate from the University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN. David went to work for Martin Marietta Missiles Systems, the Electro-Optics Division, in Orlando Florida. Unfortunately, circa 1990, the Soviet Union collapsed and many scientists lost their jobs. So he began a new career in filmmaking, attending the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, graduating with a MFA in film production in 2010. After which, he moved to Los Angeles and began writing screenplays, continuing to do so while promoting “Termite Cat Productions, Ltd.”
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Zina Giannopoulou
Zina Giannopoulou is an Associate Professor of Classics and an Affiliate of European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She has published extensively on comparative classicisms, Plato, and the intersection between literature/film and philosophy. She is currently finishing a monograph on adaptations of Plato’s allegory of the Cave in twentieth-century literature and film.
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Philip Gillett
Philip Gillett is an independent writer on film and author of The British Working Class in Postwar Film (MUP, 2003), Movie Greats: A Critical Study of Classic Cinema (Berg, 2008), a re-examination of the film canon, Film and Morality (CSP, 2012) and Forgotten British Film: Value and the Ephemeral in Postwar Cinema (CSP, 2017), and Film and the Historian: The British Experience (CSP, 2019).
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Alexandra Gillie-Hardy
Alexandra Gillie-Hardy is currently completing her undergraduate degree in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema with Concordia University. Originally from Toronto, she moved to Montreal to pursue her interest in Film and has since been able to develop a deeper understanding of cinema. She hopes to continue her studies in film and begin a Master’s Degree once finishing her undergrad.
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Sean Gilman
Sean Gilman is a writer based in Tacoma, Washington. He’s the founder and editor of Seattle Screen Scene, host of The George Sanders Show and the They Shot Pictures podcast and writes at The End of Cinema. He’s written for Movie Mezzanine, the MUBI Notebook and InReview Online.
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Philippe Girard
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Olivier Godin
Olivier Godin makes films and writes for Hors champ. In 2014, a retrospective of his work was presented at the Cinémathèque québécoise. He directed and wrote, in just a few years, five feature films and numerous short films. Through small budgets and a commitment to speech and artisanal filmmaking, one finds in these films knives and swords, the occasional gun, saxophones and trumpets. In short, adventure!
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Reece Goodall
Reece Goodall is a PhD student at the University of Warwick, where is working on an industrial and ideological survey of contemporary French horror cinema. His research interests include horror in France and the USA, genre as a theoretical lens and the interplay of popular media, culture and politics. He has previously written for Horror Studies.
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Claudia Gorbman
Claudia Gorbman is professor of film studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She is the author of Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music (Indiana and BFI, 1987), and has translated several books from French, including three by Michel Chion and another in the works. She is also currently working on a book on the films of Agnes Varda for the University of Illinois directors series under James Naremore.
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Louis Goyette
Louis Goyette received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Studies from Concordia University and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Montreal, with a dissertation on the Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi. He worked on the 2006, Boréal edition of the Dictionary of Québec cinema and contributed extensively to Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada, Peter Harry Rist, ed., 2001. He also published a text on the experimental films of the artist Charles Gagnon, as part of a retrospective devoted to him, which the Museum of Contemporary Art Montreal exhibited in 2001. Louis wrote occasionally for the online journals Offscreen and Hors Champs, and taught film studies with great passion at Concordia University, University of Montreal, and University of Sherbrooke.
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Stephane Grasso
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Ana Grgic
Dr. Ana Grgic is Lecturer in Film, Television and Screen Studies at Monash University Malaysia. She holds a PhD in Film Studies from the University of St Andrews, with a thesis on early cinema in the Balkans, archives and cultural memory (forthcoming monograph with Amsterdam University Press). Her research explores under-researched and peripheral regions and areas of Film Studies (the Balkans, small national cinemas, Eastern Europe), in order to examine how these reflect, contribute to and challenge dominant discourses (Eurocentrism, ethnocentrism, neo-colonialism) in world cinema and filmic representations. She is currently working on an edited collection Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits, which aims to provide a critical and comprehensive analysis of post-2008 global financial crisis trends in subject-matter and aesthetics, through a transnational and cross-cultural study of the region’s national cinemas. Her scholarly contributions include articles and chapters in The Film Festival Yearbook 5: Archival Film Festivals (2013), Frames Cinema Journal (2013), Divan Film Festival Symposium Papers (2014, 2015), Cinemas of Paris (2015), Studies in Eastern European Cinema (2016), Short Film Studies (2017), Film Quarterly (2018), Images (2018) and she regularly writes for the East European Film Bulletin. She has co-edited a special issue on Albanian cinema for KinoKultura, and as a Board member of the Albanian Cinema Project she was involved in the preservation and exhibition of Balkan cinema heritage (Archives in Motion workshops). Ana was also the co-organiser of The 5C Project, a year-long film literacy project funded by the Creative Media, taking place in Croatia, Greece, Romania and Albania.
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Anthony Guadagnano
Born and raised in Montreal, Anthony Guadagnano demonstrated an early interest in visual arts and art history but eventually decided to focus his studies towards cinema. Completing a screenwriting certificate from Université du Québec à Montréal and further along, a Masters Degree in Film Studies from Concordia University, he is mainly interested with Quebec and Canadian film, Queer cinema and pop culture. He is currently pursuing a career in writing both for the screen and for the page.
