Gerda Cammaer
Gerda Cammaer is a filmmaker, curator, scholar and Associate Professor in the School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University (Canada). Her main research interests are experimental and documentary film, smartphone filmmaking and microcinema, media and the environment. Following her Ph.D. thesis (completed in 2010), a research-creation project about the importance of experimental film practices in times of accelerated technological changes, she directed her attention to various forms of ephemeral cinema and forgotten film histories. Her current research focuses on the revival of microcinema—various low-budget independent short films inspired by the creative possibilities of new moving image technology —and their lineage with historical forms of alternative short films and videos. She is the co-editor of Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada (McGill University Press, 2014) and of Critical Distance in Documentary Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
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