Contributors
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Robert Robertson
Robert Robertson, composer and filmmaker, graduated with an MFA in Film Production from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in 2002. Supervised by filmmaker Professor Marielle Nitoslawska, he also studied with Professor Mario Falsetto and Professor Peter Rist in the Film Studies Department, and Professor Lon Dubinsky in Fine Art. Previously he composed the operas The Kingdom (Amsterdam and tour of The Netherlands, 1984), The Cathars (UK, 1995), Empedocles (realised as a music/film with Dennis Dracup, London, 1995). His music/films include Oserake and The River That Walks (Montreal, 2002), and I’m Back (2007). Invisible City, and Architecture Improbable are music/films in progress. In April 2007 he received his doctorate from King’s College London, UK, for his research on Eisenstein’s ideas on audiovisual cinema. His first book, entitled Eisenstein on the Audioviual is slated for publication (Tauris) in early 2009.
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Mike Rollo
Born and raised in the flatlands of Saskatchewan, Mike Rollo currently lives in Montreal working as a filmmaker and educator. A member of the Double Negative Collective since 2004, his films have screened internationally. Mike recently completed a cinematic formalist poem of Saskatchewan entitled Ghost and Gravel Roads.
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Dominic Romano
Dominic Romano is currently completing his Master’s Degree in Film Studies at Concordia University in Montréal, Quebec. Originally from California, Romano completed his Undergraduate Degree at UC Santa Cruz, majoring in both Comparative Literature and Film and Digital Media. His critical-creative research focuses primarily on the manifestation of cultural and historical trauma within contemporary global visual art. He was the recipient of the Steck Family Award, for Best Undergraduate Senior Thesis, as well as the Concordia Merit Scholarship. With experience as both a working cinematographer and musician, Romano’s work is deeply informed and inspired by his artistic sensibilities.
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Anna Romatowska
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Sarah Rooney
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James Rose
James Rose is the author of Beyond Hammer: British Horror Cinema since 1970, Studying The Devil’s Backbone and The Devil’s Advocate: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He has contributed to a number of Edited Volumes as well as regular publication in a range of international film journals, including The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, Offscreen, Electric Sheep, and Vertigo. His blog is linked below.
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Miles Rufelds
Miles Rufelds is an artist, writer, and researcher based in Toronto. He holds a Master of Visual Studies in studio art from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa. Rufelds’ interdisciplinary projects consider the technological structures connecting corporate or military power to the histories of ecology, science, industry, food, film, and aesthetics. He’s exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, as well as screening programs and lecture series’, nationally and internationally.
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Emmalea Russo
Emmalea Russo is a writer. She edits Asphalte Magazine and is pursuing a PhD in philosophy. Her writing has appeared in many venues, including Artforum, BOMB, and Granta. Her books are G (2018) and Wave Archive (2019).
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Noah Rymer
Noah Rymer is a writer, poet, and occasional film critic who enjoys the whole spectrum of cinema, from twice-removed Italian ripoff cinema to obscure Czech New Wave. When he’s not busy beating up his typewriter, he likes to sip cheap wine and read Baudelaire while admiring the lush, verdant mountains and spiraling forests of Virginia.
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Ramin S. Khanjani
Referring to himself as a cine-aficionado, Ramin S. Khanjani obtained his Master’s degree in Film Studies from Carleton University, Ottawa. His writings and reports have previously appeared in the Iranian publications, Film Monthly and Film International. He is the author of Animating Eroded Landscape:The Cinema of Ali Hatami (2014).
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Viviane Saglier
Viviane Saglier is a member of the collective Palestinian Perspectives.
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Leon Saunders Calvert
Leon Saunders Calvert works in a financial information media company in London. He has a BA Hons from the University of Essex in Philosophy and Literature, including film studies, and an MSc in International Management from the University of Reading. He believes that the study of philosophy and culture can be fundamental to providing us with a better understanding of the world we live in and the ways in which it can be improved, rather than undertaken as a kind of intellectual workout, as is so often the case. Leon has published reviews in Film International and The Film Journal.
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Kate Schiebelbein
Kate Schiebelbein is currently completing her BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal. Her interests include the silent era, experimental film, and noir. After finishing her undergrad she plans to travel, visiting film festivals and old movie theatres in as many different countries as possible. Ultimately, she would like to end up working in a museum or art gallery.
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Charlotte Selb
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Joey Shapiro
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Joey Shapiro
Joey Shapiro is a freelance film critic and journalist working out of Chicago. He recently earned his BA in Cinema Studies at Oberlin College and has written on film, music, and pop culture for The Oberlin Grape, Tunnel Magazine, Frame Rated, and Taste of Cinema. His interest lies most strongly in horror films, especially 1970s exploitation horror.
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Noel Shine
Noel Shine is a freelance photographer/journalist going back to 1997, based in Kells, near Dublin. He has been published extensively in Irish and international media including, ‘Irish America’ and ‘The Chap’ magazines. His photography portfolio includes some of the great icons of the 20th century, many of whom he interviewed including, Maureen O’Hara and author, JP Donleavy’ (‘The Ginger Man’). As a mature student (53), he recently graduated in Media and Film Production (QQI level 5), with a view to taking Theology and Arts at Maynooth University this Autumn/Fall.
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Martin Shingler
Martin Shingler is Senior Lecturer in Radio & Film Studies at the University of Sunderland (UK) having spent fifteen years lecturing on film and media courses at Staffordshire University (UK). He has specialist expertise in melodrama and the woman’s film, screen acting, the star system, film sound, radio drama and comedy. He is the co-author of two books, On Air: Methods and Meanings of Radio, with Cindy Wieringa, (Arnold, 1998) and Melodrama: Genre, Style & Sensibility, with John Mercer (Wallflower Press, 2004). He has also published a number of essays on the Hollywood film star Bette Davis, which appear in the books Identifying Hollywood’s Audiences, eds. Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby (BFI, 2001) and Screen Acting, eds. Alan Lovell and Peter Kramer, (Routledge 1999), and in the journals Screen, Journal of American Studies, Journal of Film & Video and Theatre Annual.
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Jennifer Sin
Jennifer Sin is currently pursuing a B.F.A. with a Major in Film Studies and a Minor in Human Rights Studies at Concordia University. She has been running a personal film blog featuring reviews and other articles since June 2011. She is the co-founder of Afterimages, Concordia’s undergraduate film magazine (print) founded in January 2013, whose debut issue will be published in May 2013. Her personal interests lie in the genres of dark comedy and East Asian horror, but she also believes in the power of the film medium (in both its fiction and non-fiction format) to present a necessarily accurate, and often disturbing, portrayal of the world that we live in.
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Michael Glover Smith
Michael Glover Smith is a Chicago-based filmmaker, critic, author and teacher. His debut feature film Cool Apocalypse (2015) won multiple awards on the festival circuit and will be released on home video by Emphasis Entertainment Group later this year. His book Flickering Empire, a non-fiction account of the silent-film era in Chicago, was published to acclaim by Columbia University Press in 2015. He teaches film history and aesthetics at Oakton Community College and Harold Washington College and his film writing has appeared in The Chicago Reader, La Furia Umana, Time Out and other outlets. He is currently in pre-production on his next film, Mercury in Retrograde.
