Dr Kim Knowles
BA (Hons) Astudiaethau Ffilm a'r Cyfryngau (Prifysgol Stirling) MSc Astudiaethau Ffilm Ewropeaidd (Prifysgol Edinburgh) PhD Astudiaethau Ffilm (Prifysgol Edinburgh)

Lecturer in Alternative and Experimental Film
Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies
Contact Details
- Email: kik2@aber.ac.uk
- Office: 2.36, Parry - Williams Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 628700
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
I received my PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2007 and taught on the Film Studies programme there before becoming Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the AHRC funded project 'Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition' at the University of Kent. I joined the Department at Aberystwyth in 2011. Since 2008 I have also been Experimental Film Programmer for Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Additional Information
External Examiner MA in Film Curation, Birkbeck University of London (2015 - 2019)
External Examiner MA in Film and Television Studies, University of Bristol (2016 - present)
Co-Investigator AHRC Research Network 'Film and the Other Arts: Intermediality, Medium Specificity, Creativity' (2015 - 2017): http://www.filmandarts-network.hss.ed.ac.uk/
International Partner for 'Reset the Apparatus! Retrograde Technicity in Artistic, Photographic and Cinematic Practices', University of Applied Arts Vienna. Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (2016 - 2019): http://www.resettheapparatus.net/
Experimental Film Programmer for the 'Black Box' strand of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (2008 - present)
Series editor: Experimental Film and Artists' Moving Image (Palgrave Macmillan)
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- TFM3520 - Exhibiting Film
- FM34520 - Experimental Cinema
- FM24420 - Art Cinema
- TFM0920 - Ecocriticism and Ecocinema
- TFM1060 - Practice Research Project
Lecturer
Coordinator
- FM24420 - Art Cinema
- FM34520 - Experimental Cinema
- TFM3520 - Exhibiting Film
- TFM0920 - Ecocriticism and Ecocinema
- TFM1060 - Practice Research Project
Tutor
- FM24420 - Art Cinema
- FM34520 - Experimental Cinema
- TFM3520 - Exhibiting Film
- FM33540 - Experimental Media Production
- FM11120 - Movements in Film History
- TFM0920 - Ecocriticism and Ecocinema
- TFM0840 - Documentary Practices
- PGM2210 - Research Skills and Personal Development (Arts and Humanities) (2210)
Research
My research focuses on historical and contemporary forms of experimental filmmaking. I have published a number of articles and book chapters on the French avant-garde, contemporary experimental film aesthetics, and the relationship between film and poetry, as well as interviews with practitioners. My current research is concerned with the impact of technological change on experimental filmmaking, and the aesthetics and politics of obsolescence.
I welcome PhD enquiries related to any aspect of alternative film culture.
Responsibilities
Director of Research
Scheme Coordinator for MA in Documentary Filmmaking: Landscape and Ecology
Research Groups
Office Hours (Student Contact Times)
- Monday 13.00-15.00