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Sebastian Jakub Konefał is an assistant professor of film studies. His researches in Iceland and Norway were founded by The EEA and Norway Grants. The author of books: Cinema of Iceland: Between Tradition and Liquid Modernity (2019), Kino Islandii. Tradycja i ponowoczesność / The Cinema of Iceland. Tradition and Postmodernity (2016), Corpus Futuri. Literackie i filmowe wizerunki postludzi / Corpus Futuri. Literary and cinematic images of post-humans (2013). His academic interests include popular culture and tv, genre cinema, religion in sci-fi, the aesthetics and history of modern Nordic cinema, and comic book studies.

He likes dogs and computer games and is also a fan of travelling, comic books, and tv series.

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Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Research at the University of Gdansk. Her
academic interests include philosophy of culture, film and media in a phenomenological and (post)secular perspective (via negativa). She has authored the book Ontologia i   estetyka filmowych obrazów Wernera Herzoga (Ontology and aesthetics of Werner Herzog’s film images, 2014) and has published many academic articles. An author of the film Oglądy (Views), based on the novel Pokój (The Room) by Jean-Paul Sartre. She is a president of Gdansk department of Polish Society of Film and Media Studies. She used to be a vice-president (2012-2014) of Pomeranian Philosophical and Theological Society.

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Grażyna Świętochowska teaches and researches Film Studies at the University of Gdańsk since 2008. She is an Editor-in-Chief of “Panoptikum”, the peer-reviewed academic journal on audiovisual culture. She received her PhD in Humanities from University of Gdańsk, Poland in September 2014. Her dissertation The Czechoslovak New Wave as a form of film modernism will be published as a book České vynálezy. Selected aspects of Czech and Slovak audiovisual culture in 1960s. Her latest academic interests involve opening sequences, video essay and videographic moving image studies.

In 2016, she attended CEU Summer University in Budapest, Hungary: Screened Memories. Historical Narratives and Contemporary Visual Culture and participated in an Academic Study Visit in NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.

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Bożena Kudrycka

Doctor of humanities. She defended her PhD with distinction at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts at the Jagiellonian University. She received M. Grabowska Award for the best MA thesis and the medal of the National Education Commission. Author of the monograph: “Hidden Views in the Films of Bernardo Bertolucci” (nominated for the PTBFM Award for Best Book about Film and Media 2016), co-author of three volumes: “Search and degradation of the sacred cinema”, “From Boccaccia to Tabucchi”, “Italian cinema after 1980”, she also published articles in “Kwartalnik Filmowy”, “Kultura Liberalna”, “LiteRacje” and others.

She founded the Film Education Studio at UG, whose task is to create a coalition for film education in Pomerania.

For 15 years she has been working at the Gdańsk Doc Film Festival as a selector and juror, as well as cooperating with DKF Kurort and DKF Miłość Blondynki and several publishing houses.

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Assistant Professor at the Film and Media Department at the University of Gdańsk. Author of the doctoral dissertation on the reflexivity in Polish cinema. In the years 2012-2019 he was responsible for film education at Klub Żak. He was one of the founders and editors of the YouTube online channel “Amatorzy TV”. He is a regular collaborator of “Ekrany” magazine. He co-edited the book Orson Welles. Twórczość – recepcja – dziedzictwo (Orson Welles. Creativity – reception – heritage). He published, among others, in “Studia Filmoznawcze”‘, “Bliza”, “Lampa”, “Panoptikum”, the educationfilmowa.pl portal and in collective volumes. He likes to listen to music (especially hip-hop) and play video games. Unfortunately for him – he supports Arsenal F.C.

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Ph.D, film historian. Lecturer in New Horizons of Film Education and Polish Film Academy. Member of the editorial staff of “Script. Gdynia Film School Notebooks”. Member of the Polish Society for Film and Media Studies. Co-editor of the book Orson Welles: Works – Reception – Legacy, he works on the book Polish Cinema towards the Home Army.

In his second life he is an employee of The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, where he is the coordinator of such events as: “Gdańsk Press Photo”, “The One Minutes Film Festival” and “Pomerania Readings”.

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Thomas Elsaesser is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Media and Culture of the University of Amsterdam. From 2006 to 2012 he was a Visiting Professor at Yale University, and since 2013, he teaches part-time at Columbia University. Besides publishing over 200 essays in journals and collections, he has authored, edited, and co-edited some 20 volumes on film history, film theory, German and European cinema, Hollywood, Media archaeology, New Media and Installation Art. His books have been translated, among others, into: French, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and Turkish.

Among his recent books as an author are: German Cinema – Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory Since 1945 (New York: Routledge, 2013) and (with Malte Hagener) Film Theory – An Introduction through the Senses (2nd edition, New York: Routledge, 2015). He is currently completing a book on European Cinema and Continental Thought (Bloomsbury, 2016).

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