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Martine Beugnet is Professor in Visual Studies at the University of Paris,Diderot. She was previously in post at the University of Edinburgh(19992012). She has written articles and essays on a wide range ofcontemporary cinema topics and published four books: Sexualit,marginalit, contrle: Cinma Franais contemporain (Paris, 2000), ClaireDenis (Manchester, 2004 & 2012), Proust at the Movies (with MarionSchmid) (Surrey, 2005) and Cinema and Sensation: French Filmand the Art of Transgression (Edinburgh, 2007 & 2012). She alsoco-edits, with Kriss Ravetto (UC Davis), the EUP series in FilmStudies .

Firoza Elavia teaches courses in Film and Media Studies andearned her PhD from York University, Toronto. Her current scholarlyinterest examines difference and repetition in analogue and digitaltechnologies, focusing on memory, perception and the virtual timeof media events. She has edited Cinematic Folds: The Furling andUnfurling of Images (Toronto, 2008), an anthology on film and digitalmedia.

Henrik Gustafsson is a post-doctoral fellow with the research teamBorder Culture at the University of Troms and a member of theNomadikon Centre of Visual Culture. His book Out of Site: Landscape andCultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema, 19691974 (Saarbrcken,2008) is an interdisciplinary study on film, fine arts and cultural memory.Together with Asbjrn Grnstad, he has edited the volumes Cinema andAgamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (New York, 2014) and Ethics and Images of Pain (New York, 2012). Gustafsson is currentlyworking on a new project entitled Crime Scenery: The Art of War and theAfterlife of Landscape.

Sam Ishii-Gonzales is Assistant Professor of Film in the School of MediaStudies at The New School, where he teaches courses on aesthetics, mediatheory and film production. He is the co-editor of two books on AlfredHitchcock and has published essays on a variety of artists and philosophers,including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Francis Bacon, Henri Bergson, GillesDeleuze and David Lynch. His writings have been translated into Hungarianand Italian. His current book project, Being and Immanence, or Non-Actingfor the Cinema , considers the different uses of the non-actor throughoutcinema history and the relevance of this figure for understanding theontology of film. He is also currently developing a collaborative film projectinspired by the philosopher Henri Bergsons Matter and Memory (1896).

Kirsten Johnson works as a director and a cinematographer. She iscurrently editing a documentary she shot and directed in Afghanistancalled I Dream Them Always . In 2010, as the supervising DP onAbby Disney and Gini Retickers series, Women, War and Peace , shetravelled to Colombia, Bosnia and Afghanistan. She shared the 2010Sundance Documentary Competition Cinematography Award withLaura Poitras for The Oath . She shot the Tribeca Film Festival 2008documentary winner, Pray the Devil Back to Hell and the WarnerIndependent/Participant Pictures Darfur Now . Her cinematography isfeatured in Fahrenheit 9/11 , Academy Award-nominated Asylum ,Emmy-winning Ladies First and Sundance premiere documentaries ThisFilm is Not Yet Rated , American Standoff and Derrida . A chapter on herwork as a cinematographer is featured in the book The Art of theDocumentary . Her feature-film script My Habibi was selected for the 2006Sundance Writers Lab and Directors Lab and is recipient of anAnnenberg Grant. Her previous documentary as a director, Deadline (co-directed with Katy Chevigny), premiered at Sundance in 2004,was broadcast on prime time NBC and won the Thurgood MarshallAward.