Dr Grazia IngravalleSenior Lecturer in FilmEmail: g.ingravalle@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: Arts One 1.02AProfileTeachingResearchPublicationsProfileI am a theorist and historian of film and media, which I investigate through the lens of audio-visual archives. In the last ten years, my research has concentrated on film museums, archives and cinémathèques, ranging from the BFI National Archive to the George Eastman Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY. By examining archival collections, institutional histories and curatorial practices, I trace cinema’s transition from the analogue world to the digital age. These and related concerns have inspired my writing in several edited collections and in The Moving Image, Screen and my monograph Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital (Amsterdam University Press, 2023). As an archival and museum object and a visual historical record, film can tell many layered stories about our past. My current work interrogates the enduring legacies of colonialism by examining colonial films, film archives and museums from a postcolonial perspective. I have written about the ethics and politics of archiving and displaying colonial films shot in British India in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies and Viewfinder. My second book project will investigate the history of cinema as a colonial visual medium, its archival conservation and the circulation of this ‘difficult heritage’ in the present day. I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2017-2021) and I am currently serving as Vice-President for Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, and Trustee for Learning on Screen, the British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council. I welcome PhD applications in the fields of film and media history, film and media theory, film archival studies, film curation, early and silent cinema, colonial cinema, postcolonial critique, digital media, digital remix and found footage documentary. I am currently supervising Poorvi Gaur’s research “Planning Films for ‘Family Planning’: Situating Women in Films and Practices of Films Division of India (1950-80)” and Xiaoxin Cheng’s thesis “Mapping British Chinese Identities on Screen.”TeachingFLM005 – Introduction to British Cinema: From the Early Days to the 1950s FLM608 – Contemporary British Cinema: From the 1960s to the Present Day FLM5205 – Film Curation: Institutions, Preservation, Exhibition FLM4205 – Decolonising Approaches to Film Analysis ResearchResearch Interests: Colonial Cinema Postcolonial Studies Film Archives and Museums Early and Silent Cinema Film and Media History Film and Media Theory Film Curatorship Museum Studies Digital Media Digital Remix Found Footage Documentary Digital Humanities PublicationsMonograph Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, OA, 2023. Peer-Reviewed Articles / Chapters “Algorithmic Archival Remix: Metacreative, Metahistorical, and Metatemporal Considerations around Jan Bot.” In The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 2nd edition, eds. Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher, and xtine burrough. New York: Routledge, 2024, forthcoming. “An Accidental Virtual Archive of Colonialism.” In Accidental Archivism. Shaping Cinema’s Futures with Remnants of the Past, eds. Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Vinzenz Hediger. Lüneburg, DE: Meson Press, 2023. Review of Odile Goerg, Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West Africa, trans. Melissa Thackway. Screen 64. 2 (Summer 2023). “Indian or British Film Heritage? The Material Life of Britain’s Colonial Film Archive.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61.2 (Winter 2022): 63–87. “Provenance and Film Historiography: 1910s Films at the George Eastman Museum.” In Provenance and Early Cinema, eds. Joane Bernardi, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Tami Williams and Joshua Yumibe. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2021. “Allegories of the Past: Nitrate Film’s Aura in Post-Industrial Rochester, NY.” Screen 60.3 (Autumn 2019): 371–387. (Screen’s “Article with Impact,” most read 2019 article; BAFTSS Honorable Mention) “Guest Editors’ Foreword: Digital Humanities and/in Film Archives.” Special Issue of The Moving Image 17.2 (Spring 2017), with Dimitrios Latsis. “Remixing Early Cinema: Historical Explorations at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands.” The Moving Image 15.2 (Winter 2015): 82–97. Anthologies “Digital Humanities and/in Film Archives.” Special Issue of The Moving Image 17.2 (Spring 2017), eds. with Dimitrios Latsis. In Preparation “Polish Settlements in Brazilian Wilderness (1933): From Poland to Brazil, From an Orphan Propaganda Film to the Digital Audiovisual Archive of Colonialism.” Journal of Visual Culture, with Michał Pienkowski and Grzegorz Rogowski. Other Outputs (selected) “Archival Film Curatorship, an Interview,” New Books Network Podcast Series, forthcoming 2024. “Mining the Film Archive to Reckon with the Colonial Past.” Viewfinder no. 114 (March 2020). https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/viewfinder/articles/mining-the-film-archive-to-reckon-with-the-colonial-past/.