Program description This program celebrates the vast legacy of a Seattle-based and one of the Northwest’s most prolific filmmakers and composers Jon Behrens (1964-2022), showcasing his unique experiments with image, sound and celluloid. From silent studies in light, color and water and cinematic abstractions to landscapes, cityscapes, NASA images and Hollywood movies, the program demonstrates…

Book reviews Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2026. “Grasping the World of Moving-Image Media with Scott MacDonald’s Comprehending Cinema: Panoramic Audiovisioning.” European Journal of American Studies 21 (1): 1-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/166fw Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2025. “Kim Knowles and Jonathan Walley, editors. The Palgrave Handbook of Experimental Cinema”, European Journal of American Studies 20 (4): 1-6. http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/25127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/15oxr Boczkowska,…

Chapters in edited volumes 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 Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2023. “Windshield Tourism Goes…

Articles in peer-reviewed journals Boczkowska. Kornelia. “American pet cemeteries in history and fiction: remembering animals through film.” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, published online. DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2025.2511374 Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2024. “Transients, punks and hobos: rethinking the history of train hopping through experimental film.” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice 28(1): 28-49.…

Blog entries Online talks

Research results Books Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2023. Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video. Leiden: Brill, pp. 292. DOI: 10.1163/9789004537989 Articles in peer-reviewed journals Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2019. “The Outlaw Machine, the Monstrous Outsider and Motorcycle Fetishists: Challenging Rebellion, Mobility and Masculinity in Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising and Steven Spielberg’s Duel.”…

Research results Books Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2023. Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video. Leiden: Brill, pp. 292. Articles in peer-reviewed journals Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2018. “‘Bringing the Unseen Out of the Shadows’: In Pursuit of Ciné-Transe and Film-Performance in Ben Russell’s the quarry (2002) and TRYPPS #7 (BADLANDS) (2010).” AM…

Research results Books Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2023. Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video. Leiden: Brill, pp. 292. DOI: 10.1163/9789004537989 Journal issues edited Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2021. Landscape, Travel and the Gaze in Experimental Film and Video, special issue of Papers on Language and Literature 57 (1), pp. 116. ISSN: 0031-1294…

Research results Publications Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2025. “Carcasses, birdsongs and space dogs: aesthetics of representing dead and extinct animals in experimental film.” Journal of Aesthetics & Culture 17(1). DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2025.2583418 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…