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Domeitta Torlasco visits the CHR

Image credit: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/out-of-work/

Domietta Torlasco is a critical theorist, filmmaker, and associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at Northwestern University. Torlasco is currently completing a book titled Rhythm Beyond Measure: Cinema and the Life of Images and an experimental documentary on playgrounds and the histories of botany and urban planning.

Books: 
  • The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film (Stanford University Press, 2008) 
  • The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film (Minnesota University Press, 2013).
Essays:
  • Torlasco, D., 2010. I am you, if I am: Notes for a Phenomenology of Narcissism. World Picture, 4.
  • Torlasco, D., 2012. The Actress Is a Filmmaker: Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini’s New Erotics of Vision. World Picture, 7.
Selected Video Essays:
  • Torlasco, D., 2014. Philosophy in the Kitchen.
  • Torlasco, D., 2016. House Arrest. NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, 5(2), pp.267-269.
  • Torlasco, D., 2016. Sunken Gardens.
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