AUTOPSIES: THE AFTERLIFE OF DEAD OBJECTS

Sheena Scott is undertaking a PhD in the French Department at UCL on French cinema, entitled "Tactile Moves: an Archaeology of the Sense of Touch through French Cinema." She received a Distinction in her MA in Film Studies at UCL where she wrote a dissertation entitled "The (In)visibility of Cinema: The concepts of 'voir' and 'se représenter' in Jean-Luc Godard's latest films from 1996 to 2004." She also has a BA from UCL with a first in French.

 

Hanne Graversen received a distinction for her MA in Film Studies at UCL, where previously she had graduated with a first honours BA French with a distinction. Her special interest in objects and the spaces they occupy is evident through her work, namely in her MA dissertation entitled “The Cinematic Taxicab: The Black Cab in London Crime Films (1946-1965)”, MA essay “Crash, Boom, Bang! - The subversive practices of space on the highway in Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Louis Malle, 1968) and Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996)” and her analysis of the orchestration of objects in contemporary French photography in her BA dissertation, “La Nostalgie du Réel dans la Photographie Française Aujourd'hui (1993-2004)”. Hanne is currently working as a Digital Planner at digital marketing agency Tribal DDB in London.

Chanchul Jung is a PhD candidate in Film Studies in the Centre for Intercultural Studies at University College London. He completed his MA in Film Studies at UCL in 2008. Before coming to UCL, he lived, worked, and studied in South Korea. His interests include international early and silent cinema, classical film theory, early cinema and the experience of modernity, the cultural history of capitalism, film historiography, film exhibition and spectatorship. His dissertation work concerns early cinema and its relationship with  modernity in the early Korean cinematic context. He is a great fan of  modernist cinema of the twenties (Soviet, French, and German), as well as of Bresson, Antonioni, Tarkovsky, and Robert W. Paul.

Jacob Paskins is a PhD candidate in Architectural History & Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His thesis is a social and cultural history of building construction work in and around Paris during the 1960s. He obtained an MSc with distinction in Built Environment: Architectural History in 2007, and a BA with first class honours in French & History of Art in 2006, both at UCL.

Rebecca Harrison has just completed an MA in Film Studies at UCL.  She received a First in Media Arts at Royal Holloway where she developed an avid interest in film theory and in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the moving image.  Her MA Thesis at UCL, “The Uncanny Invasion: Foreign Filmmakers in Swinging London" married a geographic understanding of space with an entirely filmic, imaginary one.  She enjoys the national cinemas of the Weimar Republic and Britain, and is interested in the related studies of modernism, surface culture, design history, and cinematic space.  Rebecca has been awarded a scholarship for her PhD in Film, which she will undertake at Royal Holloway beginning in September 2009.  Her PhD thesis explores the spatial and cultural relationship between British cinema and the interior of the train carriage, and will examine interior design, the history of the moving image, and a history of technology.

Roland-François Lack is interested in reel-to-reel tape recorders. Click here for an example. 

Steph Fuller was an Autopsies Reading Group Participant in 2009-10 and has joined the Autopsies Group as a Member in June 2010. She will be undertaking a PhD at the University of East Anglia in October this year entitled "Motion Pictures and Mobilities: Crossing the US-Mexico Border in Film." She received an MA with distinction in Film Studies at UCL with a dissertation called "Cartographic Cinema: More than just Maps." She studied for her BA at Cardiff University in English Literature and Cultural Criticism.