WORK EXPERIENCE |
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MARCH 2009 – DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR "L'EXTENSION" |
Advertisement film for Quanta Medical, pharmaceutical company, Rueil Malmaison, France |
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SUMMER 2007 – FRENCH TO ENGLISH TRANSLATOR |
AMUNDIS consultant firm in software engineering & new media project management, Marseilles, France. www.amundis.fr |
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SEPT 2005 – JULY 2007 – FILM STUDIES TUTOR & TEACHING STAFF |
Department of Film Studies
Queen’s building, Streatham campus, University of Exeter |
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JULY 2004 – TESOL ENGLISH TEACHER |
General English teaching at the I.L.I International Languages Institute
Korosfoi utca 2, Godollo, 2100 Hungary |
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OCT 2003 – JUNE 2004 – PRIVATE TUITON FOR ENGLISH OR FRENCH LANGUAGE |
General English or French, business English or French tuition for young professionals
18 Monica Grove, Manchester M19 2BN (in house, private tuition) |
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EDUCATION |
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SEPT 2004 – OCT 2008 – PhD FILM BY PRACTICE * (University scholarship) |
Department of Film Studies, School of Arts, Languages & Literatures
University of Exeter (Use of Windows Office, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro) |
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JUNE 2004 – JULY 2004 – TESOL TRINITY COLLEGE CERTIFICATErinity College Certificate |
Manchester City College/ILI International Languages Institute
Godollo, 2100 Hungary |
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OCT 2002 – NOV 2003 – MASTERS RES. DEGREE IN VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY |
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Manchester (Use of Windows Office, Adobe Premiere, Avid) |
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OCT 1999 – JUNE 2002 – BA (HONS) DEGREE IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (European bursary) |
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury
(Use of Windows Office, Final Cut Pro) |
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SEPT 1997 – JULY 1999 LITERARY BACCALAUREATE |
Lycée Alain, 78110 Le Vésinet, France |
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ACADEMIC & PUBLIC OUTPUT |
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NOV 2003 |
Screening of ‘Exile from Paradise’ (Garel, 2003; 20min) at the Zion Centre, Hulme, Manchester (Art Gallery) during the ethnographic film festival, Some Like It Real. |
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APRIL 2006 |
PhD film project 1, ‘Tribes of the Queer’ (Garel, 2006; 16min) is short listed for the Gender Bender Festival 2006, Bologna, Italy. |
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MAY 2006 |
Delivery of the paper “Beyond gender propaganda” at CRIFS (Centre of Research in Film Studies, Universtiy of Exeter) and screening of ‘Tribes of the Queer’. |
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JUNE 2006 |
The abstract for PhD film project 2, ‘AS IF!’ (Garel, 2007; 46min) obtains the Phoenix Media Bursary, Exeter Phoenix Centre, UK. |
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DEC 2006 |
The first part of ‘AS IF!’ is screened at the 2 Short Nights film festival, Exeter Phoenix Centre (Art Gallery). |
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NOV 2007 |
Delivery of the paper “Queer theory takes on learning differences” at CRIFS and screening of ‘AS IF!’. |
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JUNE 2008 |
PhD film project 3, ‘In Visibilities’ (Garel, 2008; 16min) is selected for the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Coucil) funded AVPhD/P3 Gallery Viva Viva! exhibition in London. |
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SEPT 2008 |
Chair of the panel “BDSM Narratives” as part of the post-graduate conference Sexuality, Textuality, Image, 12 September 2008, Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe, University of Exeter. |
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SEPT 2008 |
General assistance and running of the CISSGE (Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe) conference, 'Queer(s) in Europe', 13-15 September 2008, University of Exeter. |
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NOV 2008 |
I organise a public screening of ‘AS IF!’ with a chance to meet the participants and filmmaker during a subsequent question and answer session at the Black Box, Phoenix centre, Exeter (Art Gallery). |
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DEC 2008 |
‘In Visibilites’ is shown at the P3 Gallery exhibition, ‘Viva Viva!’ (AHRC funded AVPhD project) in London, 8-14 December. The entirery of my thesis is on display for the public. |
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SEPT 2009 |
Paper and audio-visual presentation at the 1st International Visual Methods Conference, University of Leeds (15-17 September 2009), “A performative documentary on quantum physics and its relevance to the human body through cross artistic collaborations”. |
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* Thesis title – QUEER BODIES AND SETTLEMENTS: The pertinence of Queer Theory in the fields of Queer history and trans politics, disability and ‘curative education’, quantum physics and experimental art – an interdisciplinary and transnational account of three socio-cultural and filmic research projects. |
