Contributors
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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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Ryan Nachnani
Ryan Nachnani is a Toronto-based writer and artist who finds inspiration in media of all kinds. He spends his nights writing, seated atop a busted office chair, spurred on by nothing more than a drink and a dream. His short fiction has been published in Close to the Bone and The Write Launch. Further, his essays on film can be found at the link below.
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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.
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Kathy Ou
Kathy Ou (she/her) is a freelance journalist and nonfiction filmmaker. Born and raised in the southern coastal city Shenzhen, China, Kathy moved to the likewise hot and sunny Los Angeles in 2018 to attend Occidental College. She graduated in May, 2022 with a dual degree in Philosophy and Media Arts and Culture, and is moving to New York City in fall 2023 for graduate school. She loves documentaries in general, but can be as easily excited by an epic historical drama as by a good revenge play. She writes to channel her obsessions and hopes to write more for fun and the love and support of independent films and documentaries.
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Nour Ouayda
Nour Ouayda is a film director. She also works as an editor and writes about cinema. She is currently pursuing a research around drifting and cinema.
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Pierre Pageau
Pierre Pageau is a retired film teacher (Collège Ahuntsic and Université de Montréal). Pageau currently works as a film journalist (writing regularly for the French film magazine Séquences) and hosts a weekly (Friday) radio show on Radio Centre-Ville. He has published many articles, mostly on film history, and provided research for two movies on Mack Sennett. His publications include Chronologie du cinéma au Québec (with Yves Lever, 2006), and Les salles de cinema au Québec, 1898-2008 (2009). His most recent book is a follow-up to the latter book, on movie theatres of the south-west region of Montreal, Les Salles de Cinéma Dans le Sud-Quest: 1898-1982.
