Graduate Student

Lázaro J. González

Lázaro J. González is an award-winning independent filmmaker, curator, and educator. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley, where his academic research and creative practice intersect in the curation and creation of counterarchives of sexual exile (sexile). His work focuses closely on queer cinema, non-fiction storytelling, diaspora, post-memory, and Latin American and Caribbean cultural production.

His doctoral dissertation theorizes pájaro cinema as a...

Patrick Harrison

Patrick Harrison’s writing has appeared in BOMB, Millennium Film Journal, Artforum, N+1, and ...

Leeroy K. Y. Kang

Rosalie Liu

Rosalie received her BA in Radio/Film/TV and Comparative Literature from Northwestern University and an MA in Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. She works on Chinese language cinema and media, focusing on how medium transformation reveals (re)conceptualization of environment, elements, and infrastructure. Other research interests include philosophy of technology, media archaeology, and Sino-Korea cultural exchanges. Besides academia, she writes and directs short films.

Jonathan Mackris

Nita McDaniel

Nita studies the development of convention in motion pictures alongside the history of film formats. She is interested in how material contingency shaped the limits for expression, the identification of the spectator, and the articulation of social norms in moving image practices. Her current research centers on the composition of the plastic negative support and the linking of cinema, as a set of formal expectations, to a specific context of production and distribution (the studio picture). She holds a BA in Art History from Reed College.

e. morris

e. morris (euridice) earned their BA in English and American Literatures from Middlebury College, as well as an MA in Latin American Studies from UCLA. Her work concerns the body, the image, and how the two come to be thought together.

Caleb Murray-Bozeman

Victor Omojola

Victor earned a B.A. from Columbia University with a major in Film and Media Studies and a minor in Political Science. He has conducted research on the relationship between the political messaging of post-1960 Cuban films and their use of Afro-Cuban music, religion, and language. In graduate school, Victor is excited to further explore militant Latin American film movements’ representation of the Black diaspora, aesthetics of early West African cinema, and video-making as a form of inquiry.

Isaac Preiss