Author Alicia Byrnes

Alicia Byrnes

Dr Alicia Byrnes is a Teaching Associate in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne. She works at the intersection of women’s issues in cinema and film technology. Her work has appeared in Senses of Cinema, Science Fiction Film & Television, and in the forthcoming edited volume World Cinema Through a Noir Lens.

Bird, Planet, Cinema: The Living Bodies of Shaunak Sen’s All that Breathes

July 2022

In his 2022 documentary, All that Breathes, Shaunak Sen conjures a nostalgic image of the Delhi skyline dotted with kites. The lower plane of the wide shot is dense cubic buildings topped by crowds of people. T...