Dr Deniz Johns

Lecturer in Film Practice

Research Overview

I am a practice-based researcher, specialising in critical film/video practices in Experimental and Expanded Cinema, and my research interests extend to political aesthetics in contemporary artists' moving image. A key area of my research has been political aesthetics of experimental film-British Structural/Materialist film in particular- and its relation to Marxist political and aesthetic theory. My current research considers the representation of the oppressed, and the power relations between film and its viewer. My interdisciplinary background in literature, linguistics and performing arts influences my research in film, and I’m always keen to collaborate with artists and researchers in those fields.

Selected Publications

Splinter in my Eye: Structural/Materialist Film
Johns, D. 5/09/2024 In: The Palgrave Handbook of Experimental Cinema. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan p. 227-250. 23 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)

The Queer Lives of the Hospital: An Archive of LGBTQIA+ Experiences of Hospital Environments
01/03/2024 → …
Research

Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Re-contextualising Hydrology: Aesthetic explorations of water + data
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Our Queer Hospital
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

CONTACT: RAUCOUS PURPOSEFUL
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Labour in a Single Shot
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Lights-Move-Morecambe
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

CINEMATERIALISM: New Materialist Approaches to the Audiovisual (Cinema, Media, Digital Arts)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Experimental Film, Video Art, and the Borders of Cinema A British Society of Aesthetics Synergy Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience