Ryan Conrath
Associate Professor of Filmat Salisbury University
Ryan Conrath's work as a teacher, scholar, and producer is informed by an international and often non-industrial conception of cinema. His research focuses on experimental film/video and international art cinema, and pivots on questions of collective politics, embodiment, and ecology. His book, Between Images: Montage and the Problem of Relation (Oxford University Press, 2023) looks at the politics and aesthetics of editing in experimental and expanded cinematic practices. Alongside his scholarly activity, he is also a producer, having acted in various capacities (director, performer, cinematographer) on a range of film productions. He is also active as a programmer and curator, and has organized museum exhibitions and screening programs on topics including the history of color film processes, Indigenous cinema, poetry and film, and postwar cinematic montage. Previously, he served as a managing editor at the pioneering online journal InVisible Culture, and currently serves as Associate Editor of Literature/Film Quarterly at Salisbury University.