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Seth Feldman | sfeldman@yorku.caUniversity Professor: Film and Television Studies
Seth Feldman's SSHRC-funded "Reflections of the Unimaginable" investigates meanings generated by recorded sound and image within a shifting contextualization of history. Cultural memories of the Holocaust are explored in three cities forced to share their names with nearby concentration camps: Brandenburg, Dachau, and Malthausen . Website
Caitlin Fisher | caitlin@yorku.caCanada Research Chair in Digital Culture
Associate Professor
Caitlin Fisher is co-founder of York’s Future Cinema Lab, an interdisciplinary lab with an international profile that produces its own software, interface solutions and groundbreaking content. Fisher's work investigates the future of narrative through explorations of interactive storytelling and cinema in Augmented Reality environments. Website
Janine Marchessault | jmarches@yorku.caCanada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization
Associate Professor: Film Studies
Janine Marchessault examines the role of artists in the creation of better cities and in the reimagining of citizenship during mass migration. In Ecstatic Worlds: 20th Century Utopian Film Projects, a book in progress, Marchessault examines aspirations for universality in collective experiments with film and media. A second book project, Urban Mediations: Art, Ethnography and Material Culture, situates different historical and methodological currents in urban media studies . Website
Temenuga Trifonova | temenuga@yorku.caAssistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies
Temenuga Trifonova, who joined the Department of Film in 2008, is affiliated with the Canadian Center for German and European Studies and cross-appointed with the graduate programs in Communication and Culture and Humanities. Temenuga has previously taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of New Brunswick. She is the author of The Image in French Philosophy (Rodopi, 2007) and European Film Theory (Routledge, 2008). Her articles have been published in Cineaste, Film and Philosophy, CineAction,
Quarterly Journal of Film and Video, European Journal of American Culture, Scope, SubStance, Kinema, Postmodern Culture, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Senses of Cinema, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies and several edited collections. She is interested in recent European cinema, psychopathology and cinema, time and cinema, screenwriting, Continental philosophy, aesthetic theory, and photography. She is currently working on a feature-length screenplay and a short film. Website
Howard Wiseman | hwiseman@yorku.caAssistant Professor: Screenwriting
Howard Wiseman won a Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award in 2004 for his radio miniseries adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s novel, "Barney’s Version," and received a Gemini nomination as co-writer of the 2007 CBC TV miniseries adaptation of Richler’s novel, "St. Urbain’s Horseman." Professor Wiseman has written many hours of TV drama and has directed over 25 half-hour episodes. He was nominated for a Gemini for directing on the crime series "EXHIBIT A." He co-wrote and appeared in the US/Russian comedy "My Family Treasure." His most recent screenplay"Shadowman," ('09) was workshopped in Tel Aviv with a cast drawn from diverse communities. As a playwright, his credits include "The Iron Curtain,"and "Mother Of Pearl," and his most recent play, "The Year of The Flood," currently being workshopped (2010), with an upcoming Toronto production in 2011. Professor Wiseman joined the full-time faculty in the Department of Film at York in 2008 . Website
