Author Nonie May

Nonie May

Nonie May works as a Lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research mobilises feminist approaches to traditional film theories, to examine poetic cinematic form as it engages the body. Her book Sight, Sound, Touch: The Sensory Child of Contemporary Cinema is forthcoming with Amsterdam University Press (2024). Her PhD dissertation, in Cinema Studies from the University of Melbourne, was nominated for the Vice Chancellor's Prize. Recent publications include a book chapter entitled ‘Written on the Body’ in The UnDead Child (Collected Edition, Ed. Debbie Olson & Craig Martin, 2024); and the prize-winning article ‘An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl]’ for Senses of Cinema (MIFF Dossier, 2022).

Ugliness, Poethical Bodies, and Nonhuman Phenomenologies in Border

Nonie May

May 2024

Film and the Nonhuman

Ali Abbasi’s 2018 film Border situates the central character, Tina (Eva Melander), as a liminal figure: lonely, strange, ugly. This is evident from the opening shot of the film, which frames Tina’s broad body ...

An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl)

Nonie May

July 2022

MIFF at 70

An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl, 2022) is a triumph for Irish-language cinema. Directed by Colm Bairéad, this coming-of-age narrative, set against a backdrop of rural Ireland in the 1980s, offers up a tender ac...