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Research results

Publications

Boczkowska. Kornelia. “American pet cemeteries in history and fiction: Remembering animals through film.” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, 2025, published online.

DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2025.2511374

Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2024. “Horses, gender, and (queer) masculine desire, or how experimental found footage film recycles three Hollywood films.” Adaptation 17(2): 265–283.

DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apae012

Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2025. “Being (with) Animals: Human-Horse Relations, Gender and Queer/Trans Embodiment in Barbara Hammer’s A Horse Is Not a Metaphor and Ann Oren’s Passage.” Cinema of/for the Anthropocene: Affect, Ecology and Posthuman Kinship, edited by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and Andrea Ruthven. London: Routledge, 144-159.

DOI:10.4324/9781003468028-12

Curated programs

An Animal Is Not A Metaphor, 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, March 30, 2024

Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Kornelia’s Interaktive Eco-Kino, Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA, September 14, 2024

KINO CRITTERS: Kornelia Boczkowska’s Animal Show, Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA, September 13, 2025

Conference talks

“Animal imagery and alternative means of production in experimental film,” 16th International Small Cinemas Conference: Film Production in the 21st century, Lodz, October 13-15, 2025

 “Animals in/as movement: Animal mobilities in experimental film and wildlife camera video,” 18th European Network for Cinema and Media Studies conference: Discovering/Uncovering. Navigating the Complexities of Screen Media, Lisbon, Portugal, June 18-21, 2025

“Why look at dead and extinct animals? Afterimages in Stan Brakhage, Deborah Stratman and Samy Benammar’s films,” 66th Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual conference, Chicago, IL, April 3-6, 2025

(Never) dead and buried: Mourning animals in experimental documentary film,” XXX Visible Evidence Conference: Decentring Documentary. New Visions and Perspectives, Melbourne, Australia, December 17-20, 2024 (presented online)

“Why look at blind and dead owls? Animal death and disability in experimental ecocinema”, 17th European Network for Cinema and Media Studies conference: Emergencies. Media in an Unpredictable World, Izmir, Turkey, June 27-29, 2024

Organizer of conference panels

Co-organizer of a panel “Experimental Eco-Cinema: Perspectives on an Expanding Field” at the 17th European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference: Emergencies. Media in an Unpredictable World, Izmir, 2024 (with Henning Engelke)

Co-organizer of a panel “Mapping Experimental Ecocinema: Critical Frameworks” at the 66th Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 2025 (with Henning Engelke)

Guest lectures

“Why Look at Dead and Disabled Animals? Animal Death and Disability in Experimental Film”, University of Arts Linz, Linz, Austria, 24 June 2025