Contributors
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Johanna Householder
A member of the notorious feminist ensemble, The Clichettes, through the 80s, Johanna Householder has continued to practice her own brand of cultural détournement working mainly through performance and video. A founder of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art held in Toronto, she edited, with Tanya Mars, the essential Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance by Canadian women, YYZ Books, Toronto, 2005. She is currently working on Volume 2.
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Cheryl Howie
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Andrea Huck
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Maya Ibrahim Kamal
Maya Kamal is an MA student in Film Studies at Concordia University. She is originally from Malaysia. Her research interest includes Third Cinema, decolonizing methodologies, and and excavating and envisioning other forms of knowledge production that takes into account of praxis engagement.
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Lainey Immell
Laine Immell is a documentary filmmaker and writer currently focusing on how personal and ideological representation on-screen can influence our social structures and beliefs off-screen. She currently lives in the always-sunny city of Philadelphia, PA.
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Yanis Iqbal
Yanis Iqbal is studying at Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has published over 300 articles on Marxist theory, social movements, imperialism, educational philosophy and cultural criticism. He is the author of the forthcoming book Education in the Age of Neoliberal Dystopia.
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Linda J. Merelle
Linda Merelle is a lawyer and writer living and working in the Seattle area. She studies and writes about film and is currently working on her first novel.
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Zain Jamshaid
Zain Jamshaid is a graduate (MA) student in Columbia University School of the Art’s Film Studies Program. He is currently working on his Master’s thesis which traces the points of intersection between New Indian Cinema filmmaker Mani Kaul’s theoretical/filmic discourse and Western film theory. His varied interests include comparative aesthetics, Indian avant-garde traditions and modernist practices, European modernisms, transnational feminisms, critical legal studies, contemporary Latin American Cinema, queer representations on film, the place of the animal in continental philosophy, and Pakistani political cultures. Recently, he has published a piece examining Belgian director Chantal Akerman’s ambivalent approach to feminist theory in Senses of Cinema, and has also presented a project (called “The Failure of ‘Hybridity’ in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled”) at Bucknell University examining Spike Lee’s racial politics in Bamboozled (2000). He intends to pursue a doctorate in Film/Visual cultures.
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Kier-La Janisse
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer and programmer, Owner/Artistic Director of Spectacular Optical Publications and founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, co-founded Montreal microcinema Blue Sunshine, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival (1999-2005) in Vancouver, was the Festival Director of Monster Fest in Melbourne, Australia and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror (2005). She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012) and contributed to Destroy All Movies!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film (Fantagraphics, 2011), Recovering 1940s Horror: Traces of a Lost Decade (Lexington, 2014), The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (University of Toronto Press, 2015), and We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale (PS Press, 2017). She co-edited and published the anthology books KID POWER! (Spectacular Optical, 2014), Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (Spectacular Optical, 2015), Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (2017), and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She is currently writing A Song From the Heart Beats the Devil Every Time: Children’s Programming and the Counterculture, 1965-1985, as well as monographs about Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter and Patricia Birch’s Grease 2, and is in development on a narrative television series based on her book House of Psychotic Women with Rook Films (Free Fire, Duke of Burgundy, A Field in England).
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Parisa Hakim Javadi
Parisa Hakim Javadi is a MA graduate of art studies (with a special focus on visual culture) from Tehran University of Art. Cinema is her passion, with a particular interest in the cinema of her home country Iran (her MA thesis is entitled: Chronotopical Narrative Construction in Fictional Feature Films of Abbas Kiarostami from 1987 to 2008). Her research also includes the Middle Eastern cinema and the cinema of East Asia.
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Seung-hoon Jeong
Seung-hoon Jeong is a PhD candidate in Film Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University.
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M. Sellers Johnson
M. Sellers Johnson is an independent scholar and editor whose research interests include French art cinema, transnationalism, historiography, and aesthetics. He received his MA from Te Herenga Waka (Victoria University of Wellington) in 2021 and his BA at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2018. His work has appeared in Afterimage, Film International, Film Quarterly, Media Peripheries, Mise-en-scène, Offscreen, and sabah ülkesi, among other outlets. He is the founding Citation Ethics Editor for Film Matters, and the current Book Reviews Editor for New Review of Film and Television Studies.
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Randolph Jordan
Randolph Jordan is a Montreal-based film scholar, educator, and multimedia practitioner. His research lives at the intersection of acoustic ecology, film studies, and critical geography. He teaches in the Humanities department at Champlain College, and has previously taught film, media literacy, and environmental philosophy at Concordia University, Ryerson University, Dawson College and LaSalle College. He is co-editor of the Sound, Media, Ecology collection (Palgrave 2019), and his monograph Acoustic Profiles: A Sound Ecology of the Cinema has just been published by Oxford University Press (2023). He has been covering Montreal film, music and new media festivals for Offscreen since 2001.
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Stefan Jovanovic
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Sheeba K
Sheeba K is an Associate Professor in the PG and Research Department of English, Government Victoria College, Palakkad, Kerala, India.
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Rebecka Kaan
Rebecka Kaan is an art historian, writer, and independent researcher specialising in self-organized moving-image practices and international networks of solidarity through cinema. Kaan recently graduated with an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Recent publications include an article on the Hungarian artist Tibor Hajas’ performance Dark Flash (1978) in the Courtauld's postgraduate journal Immediations. Kaan is currently editing a prospective book on new media and lens-based practices in Eastern Europe.
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Pranali Kadam
Pranali Kadam is a PhD candidate in English Language and Literature at the University of Mumbai, India. Her research areas include Japanese literature, psychogeography, spatiality, and suburban studies. She enjoys reading and watching films.
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Betty Kaklamanidou
Betty Kaklamanidou is Lecturer in Film Theory & History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East London. She is the author of Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism: The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com (2013), and two Greek books on film adaptation and the Hollywood romantic comedy. She has co-edited The Millennials on Film and Television: The Politics of Popular Culture (2014), HBO’s Girls. Questions of Gender, Politics, and Millennial Angst (2014), and The 21st Century Superhero: Essays on Gender, Genre and Globalization in Film (2011). In 2011, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in New York. Her fields of study include film and politics, adaptation theory, genre and gender, and contemporary Greek cinema.
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Brett Kashmere
Brett Kashmere is a Canadian-born, US-based filmmaker, writer and curator. His writing on experimental film and video has appeared in journals, anthologies, and magazines such as Millennium Film Journal, Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), The Films of Jack Chambers, The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Senses of Cinema, Esse, Take One, and more. Kashmere is currently co-editing a book on the films of Arthur Lipsett and is also the founding editor of INCITE of Experimental Media.
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Aryeh Kaufman
Aryeh Kaufman was born in New York City in 1982. He studied philosophy and psychology at Columbia University before attending Harvard Law School. Aryeh is currently a practicing attorney in New York. His academic interests center on literature, poetry, and various intersections of psychology and artistic expression. Theories of creativity, specifically relating to the subconscious, are of particular importance to him currently.
