Author Cristóbal Escobar & Barbara Creed

Cristóbal Escobar & Barbara Creed

Cristóbal Escobar is Lecturer in Screen Studies at The University of Melbourne and Film Programmer at the Santiago International Documentary Film Festival. Cristóbal co-edited with Barbara Creed the ‘Film and Nonhuman’ Dossier at Senses of Cinema (Issue 109) and he is the author of The Intensive-Image in Deleuze’s Film-Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). His current research project investigates the aesthetics of mestizaje in contemporary Latin American cinema. Barbara Creed is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of eight books, including The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (1993); Darwin’s Screens: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time & Sexual Display In The Cinema (2009); Stray: Human-Animal Ethics in The Anthropocene (2017); and Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema (2022). Her writings have been translated into eleven languages for publication in academic journals and anthologies.

Becoming Nonhuman

Cristóbal Escobar & Barbara Creed

May 2024

Film and the Nonhuman

The cinema is a marvellous apparatus for taking us outside ourselves and outside of the world in which we believe ourselves to live. – Jean Epstein What does ‘becoming nonhuman’ mean in relation to the cin...