Film & Media

Jeffrey Skoller

ARC Fellow, Filmmaker, Writer, and Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley

Jeffrey Skoller is a filmmaker and writer. He teaches film/video production and courses on the histories and theories of experimental/avant-garde film and video art, documentary/non-fiction film, Third Cinema, activist and other counter-media practices. “In research and image-making, I explore relationships between film and contemporary art, the radical aesthetics and praxis of the political avant-garde; representations of history and time in experimental film and video, and contemporary cinematic hybrids such as the essay film, experimental documentary, animated...

Shu Lea Cheang

Artist and Filmmaker

Born in Taiwan in 1954, Shu Lea Cheang has lived and worked in the United States as well as Japan, Holland, the United Kingdom, and France. Her practice combines artistic concerns with hot-button social issues, defined by her peripatetic and information-era existence. She has been a member of the alternative media collective Paper Tiger Television since 1982 and produced public-access programs for the group addressing racism in the media. In 2001 she cofounded Kingdom of Piracy, an online work space that promotes the free sharing of digital content and ideas as an art form...

Tiffany Shlaine

Filmmaker, Artist, and Author

Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker,bestselling author, and ...

Rolla Selbak

Filmmaker, Podcaster, and Storyteller

Rolla Selbak is a Sundance alumna, and a writer/director of film and TV, with TV projects most recently in development at 20th Century Fox and Sony.She imprints her fresh point of view as a Palestinian American, having moved to the U.S after the first Gulf War, and often focuses on socially topical issues that unite audiences.

Her recent pilot, CHOKE, was a winner of The Black List (Muslim List...

Warren Sack

Media Theorist, Software Designer, Artist, Chair and Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz

Warren Sack is a media theorist, software designer, and artist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. He is Professor of the Software Arts in the Film + Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he teaches digital arts and digital studies. He has been a visiting professor in France at Sciences Po, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, and Télécom ParisTech. His artwork has been exhibited by SFMoMA (San Francisco), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the New Museum of...

Paul Roquet

ARC Fellow and Associate Professor in Media Studies and Japan Studies at MIT's Comparative Media Studies & Writing Program

Paul Roquet is an associate professor in media studies and Japan studies at MIT's Comparative Media Studies / Writing program. His research focuses on how media becomes environmental and the implications of this mediation on everyday spatial awareness.

Roquet's first book, Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self (University of Minnesota Press, 2016; available open access via Manifold and PDF), delves into the use of music, video art, cinema, and literature to create "healing" atmospheres designed for relaxation and reflection. The book establishes a...

Cecelia Vicuña

Poet, Artist, Activist, Filmmaker

Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, activist and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, she has been in exile since the early 1970s, after the military coup against the president Salvador Allende. In London, she was a co-founder of Artists for Democracy in l974.

She coined the term “Arte Precario” in the mid-1960s in Chile, as a new independent and non-colonized category for her precarious works composed of debris,...

V. Vale

Cultural Historian, Writer, Keyboard Player

V. Vale is a San Francisco cultural historian, writer, keyboard player and, as Vale Hamanaka, was a member of the initial configuration of Blue Cheer. In 1977 V. Vale founded as sole proprietor Search & Destroy, San Francisco’s first Punk Rock publication. In 1980, V. Vale launched as sole proprietor RE/SEARCH. V. Vale is most likely the longest lasting (and still active) Punk publisher. Although Vale released books that include Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins, Lydia Lunch, and many other Punk notables, RE/SEARCH is actually best known for its impact on the total world of...

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli

Film & Media Scholar, Professor, and Vice Chair in the Cinema and Media Studies Department at UCLA

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli is a film and media scholar whose research has developed in two related directions. One has been in film studies and theory (focusing mostly on political, sexual, and ethnic violence), and the other in digital technologies, social media and surveillance, dispersed techno-human encounters, theories of affect, and the technological unconscious. I am intrigued by the questions emerging at the intersection between “old” and “new” media.

She is the author of ...

Trevor Paglen

Artist, Geographer, and Author

Trevor Paglen lives and works in New York, NY. As an artist, filmmaker, investigator, technologist, and theorist, Paglen asks questions around vision, perception, materiality, and aesthetics. His wide-ranging oeuvre includes work on artificial intelligence and computer vision, aerospace technology, secrecy and conspiracy, experimental landscapes, speculative fiction, nuclear histories, notional archaeology, psychological operations, and the Weird.

Paglen has photographed secret military bases from enormous distances, tracked classified satellites and objects of...