Contributors
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Robert Peterson
Robert J. Peterson is the author of two novels, The Odds and Omegaball. His third novel, The Remnants, comes out in fall of 2018. He’s the publisher and editor at California Coldblood Books, an imprint of Rare Bird Books. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, who he married in front of a giant wooden owl in a Twin Peaks-themed wedding at Burning Man 2017.
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Elisa Pezzotta
Elisa Pezzotta received her PhD in Film & Television Studies, Roehampton University, London, in 2009 and is Cultore della materia of History and Critique of Cinema at Bergamo University. She has published essays in Wide Screen, Alphaville Journal, Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, and on Ai confini della comprensione (2012), Stefano Ghislotti ed., Bergamo, Lubrina Editore. She is the author of Stanley Kubrick: Adapting the Sublime (2013), Atlanta, Mississippi University Press.
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Alberto Pezzotta
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Thomas Phillips
Thomas Phillips (b. 1969) is a composer, novelist, and teacher whose sound work focuses on improvisational performance and minimalist through-composition. He began composing electronic music in the early 1990s, releasing limited edition cd-rs under such monikers as Sea Optic, Lisbon and Eto Ami (with Dean King), and has since released music on such labels as Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Non Visual Objects (Austria) and Line (USA). Additionally, he has created music for installations and collaborations in dance and theatre. Thomas has taught in the disciplines of literature and fine arts at various universities in the US, Québec, and Finland. In 2007 he completed a PhD at Concordia University in Montreal. He currently lives in Raleigh, NC, where he teaches literature at North Carolina State University.
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Jay Plaat
Jay Plaat received his BA in Cultural Studies and his MA in Creative Industries from Radboud University Nijmegen. His work focuses primarily on cinematic rhythm and autonomous cinematic space. He currently works as a creative copywriter in his native town Uden (the Netherlands), the greenest city of Europe.
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Joshua Polanski
Joshua Polanski is a freelance film and culture writer who writes regularly for the Boston Hassle and has contributed to the Rotten Tomatoes approved Bay Area Reporter and The Young Folks amongst other places. His interests include technical elements of filmmaking and exhibition, and East Asian and Middle Eastern films.
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Jeanette Pope
Jeannette Pope is a Canadian/British/French documentary filmmaker and a bit of a nomad, and a graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Since 2015 she has lived in China where she teaches documentary film production at the Qingdao film Academy — formally the Beijing Film Academy, Qingdao Campus. She is currently based in France for the next few months while completing research on the French Concession in Shanghai where her mother was born.
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Rita Quelhas
Rita Quelhas was born in 1994 in Lisbon (Portugal) and graduated in Directing by Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in 2015. She directed two short films in the academic milieu, Uivo (screenings: DocLisboa ’14, Panorama 2015) and A Minha Juventude (screenings: IndieLisboa 2016, FILMADRID 2017, FEST / awards: FILMADRID 2017 – Young Jury Prize for Best Film). Besides directing her own films, Rita works with other directors in the editing department, in a pursuit to maintain involvement in different paths and creative processes. Rita’s desire to explore different artistic forms and ways of expression has led her to work in theatre as well, as an assistant director and video assistant for the Portuguese theatre company/cultural association Arena Ensemble, while editing her own playful and modest short film Dia. Rita see her cinephile education and interest in cinema as a way to extend and maximize the filmic experience. Her aim is to devote herself not only to filmmaking, but also to the thinking and writing on cinema.
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Stephen R. Bissette
Stephen R. Bissette won many industry awards in his quarter-century in comics as a cartoonist, writer, editor and publisher. A pioneer graduate of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art, he is best-known for Saga of the Swamp Thing, Taboo, ‘1963,’ Tyrant, co-creating John Constantine, and creating the world’s second ‘24- Hour Comic,’ invented by Scott McCloud as a challenge for Bissette. His comics efforts fueled many films, (Constantine, from Hell, TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze, etc.) and he and his son Daniel created the comic that appears in the award-winning indy feature Head Trauma. He illustrates books and has authored fiction (including the Stoker Award-winning novella Aliens: Tribes) and non-fiction (co-authoring Comic Book Rebels, The Monster Book: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and solo articles/essays for film books, magazines and his own book series Green Mountain Cinema and the four-volume Blur. He also co-authored Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press in November 2008. He currently teaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies and has lectured at Yale, Dartmouth College, Duquesne University, Smith College, Marlboro College, etc., and Middlebury College’s Breadloaf Young Writers Workshop. His papers reside in the Special Collections of HUIE Library at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
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Karthick Ram Manoharan
Karthick Ram Manoharan is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of Frantz Fanon (2019) and co-editor of Rethinking Social Justice (2020). He has written several movie reviews but is always awed by the new things he learns from cinema.
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Daniel Skipper Rasmussen
Daniel is a Copenhagen based filmmaker and journalist who writes on cinema, science, and ideas. He is regularly published in Danish media outlets and occasionally ventures into writing for international outlets. A sample of his short film work can be seen at the link below.
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Julie Ravary
Julie Ravary received her B.F.A. in Film Studies from Concordia University in 2010 while working for the Fantasia Film Festival, and is going on to pursue her Masters in this same field. Her current interests focus on women’s cinema, Quebecois cinema, and horror films.
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Hooman Razavi
Professionally trained as teacher and with background in science and education, Razavi’s interest in cinema started and grew by joining an Iranian student film club in University of Toronto. Since 2010, he has been an active member and contributor to the club’s establishment, invitations, film proposals and in times writing pieces analyzing screened films. Razavi has conducted several interviews with Iranian cinema personnel and translated on other domains of Humanities such as political science and history. He enjoys reading and learning more about world cinema, and the aesthetics, politics and economics of this ever changing industry.
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Elena Razlogova
Elena Razlogova is an Associate Professor of History at Concordia University and the author of The Listener’s Voice: Early Radio and the American Public (2011). Occasionally, she writes film festival reviews for CultMTL.
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Felix Rebolledo
Felix is a partner at Hot Spots Productions in Montreal, Canada. As a TV commercial Producer/Director he’s worked on over 300 retail commercial advertising campaigns and on-air promotions. Production credits include CTV, King World Entertainment, Wow Wee Toys, Hasbro, Fisher-Price, IBM, and RJR-Nabisco. As a field-producer, he has worked with E!, Entertainment Tonight, Fox L.A. Sports, WTN, ZDF, ARD, RAI, RTVE, CANAL “+” (Spain & France) in North America, South America, and Europe. He edited the NBC documentary The Earth is the Lord’s (Silver Medallist, New York Festivals, 1991). He loves the work but would rather be sailing his Seafarer 31 “A Su Aire” or racing Etchells, really.
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Nicolas Renaud
Nicolas Renaud has an academic background in Film and Sociology and is co-founder of Hors Champ (1996), an online film and media journal affiliated with Offscreen. He has published numerous articles on cinema, art and media, in Hors Champ and in other publications. In conjunction with Hors Champ, Renaud organized special screenings and lectures in collaboration with the Cinemathèque québécoise, including an event with Stan Brakhage in 2001. Renaud instructs camera and Super 8 film workshops at Main Film (an independent film center/co-op in Montreal). Since 1998 he is also a practising artist who has made video installations and short films that have been exhibited in Canada and Europe.
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Kate Rennebohm
Kate Rennebohm completed an undergraduate degree in Film Studies and Comparative Literature at University of Alberta in 2006. She is currently completing a Masters degree in Film Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She has assisted Professor Rosanna Maule in editing and assembling an anthology on Marguerite Duras’ filmmaking (In the Dark Room: Marguerite Duras and Cinema, 2009) and has published in Synoptique, Concordia’s online film journal. She has also written extensively as a film reviewer for SEE magazine, an Edmonton newspaper, and has worked at the Telluride Film Festival for the last two years. She is currently working on completing her thesis, which focuses on the filmmaking of Chantal Akerman and Judith Butler’s recent work on ethics.
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Bora Rex
Bora Rex is a writer, artist, and filmmaker. He lives in London.
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Stephen Rife
Stephen Rife writes and distributes VIEWFINDER, a monthly newsletter of film and media criticism, printed on paper and sent to subscribers from a disused mail chute in Philadelphia’s former Benjamin Franklin Hotel.
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Peter Rist
Peter Rist, Ph.D has been teaching film history and aesthetics at Concordia University, Montreal, since 1989. He was principal writer for, and edited, Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada (2001) and (co-edited with Timothy Barnard) South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, 1915-1994 (1998). His more recent publications (from 2014) include Historical Dictionary of South American Film and a chapter of Electric Shadows: A Century of Chinese Cinema, “Hong Kong: From the Silents to the Second Wave.” He has written extensively on Chinese and Korean cinemas and is a frequent contributor to Offscreen.
