Author Cristóbal Escobar & Valeria de los Ríos Escobar

Cristóbal Escobar & Valeria de los Ríos Escobar

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. Valeria de los Ríos Escobar is an Associate Professor at the Instituto de Estética of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is the author of six books, including: Vida animal. Figuraciones no humanas en el cine, la fotografía y la literatura (2022); Metamorfosis. Aproximaciones al cine y a la poética de Raúl Ruiz (2019); Fantasmas artificiales. Cine y fotografía en Enrique Lihn (2015); and co-author of El cine de Ignacio Agüero. El documental como la lectura de un espacio (2015).

É Noite Na América (Ana Vaz, 2022): Towards an Integral Politics of Animality

Cristóbal Escobar & Valeria de los Ríos Escobar

May 2024

Film and the Nonhuman

Animals are visual thinkers. We are verbal thinkers. – Vinciane Despret, What Would Animals Say If We Asked Them the Right Questions? An aerial view of Brasilia draped in shades of midnight blue. The sound ...