BENEDICT ANDERSON, Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies, Emeritus, Cornell University. Citizen of Ireland. Specialist on the history and politics of Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. Banned from Indonesia between 1972 to 1999. Author of Java in a Time of Revolution (1972), Imagined Communities (1983), Language and Power (1992), The Spectre of Comparisons (1998), Under Three Flags (2005), among other works. Founder and long-time editor of the journal Indonesia.
JORAM TEN BRINK is a filmmaker and Professor of Film at the University of West-minster, London, where he is also director of Doc West, the Centre for Production and Research of Documentary Film. His films have been broadcast and theatrically released internationally, and his work has been screened at the Berlin and Rotterdam film festivals and at MoMA in New York. His previous publications include, as editor, Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch (2007).
STÉPHANIE BENZAQUEN is an art historian and curator. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Historical Culture, Faculty of History and Arts, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She gained her MA in Art History at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Since 1999, she has organised projects and exhibitions in Israel, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, France and Thailand.
MICHAEL CHANAN is a documentarist, author of numerous books on both film and music, and Professor of Film & Video at the University of Roehampton, London. In the 1980s, he shot a number of films in Cuba and Latin America, most of them for Channel Four, and published the first edition of his history of Cuban Cinema. He first became involved in Latin American cinema when he curated a retrospective of new Chilean cinema in London in 1976, and recently renewed his interest in that country with ‘Three Short Films About Chile’, shot in 2011. He blogs as Putney Debater.
ARIEL HERYANTO is Associate Professor of Indonesian Studies and Head of Southeast Asia Centre, The Australian National University. He is the author of State Terrorism and Political Identity In Indonesia: Fatally Belonging (2007), and editor of Popular Culture in Indonesia: Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics (2008).
THOMAS KEENAN teaches literature and human rights at Bard College, New York, where he directs the Human Rights Project. He is the author of Fables of Responsibility (1997), co-editor of New Media, Old Media (2005) with Wendy Chun, and co-author, with Eyal Weizman, of Mengele’s Skull (2012).
ALISA LEBOW is a Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. Her research is generally concerned with issues related to documentary film, recently to do with questions of the political in documentary. Her books Cinema of Me (2012) and First Person Jewish (2008) explore aspects of the representation of self and subjectivity in first person film. She is also a filmmaker whose films include Outlaw (1994), Treyf (1998), and For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq (2007).
ADAM LOWENSTEIN is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film (2005) as well as essays that have appeared in Cinema Journal, Critical Quarterly, Film Quarterly, Post Script, Representations, boundary 2 and numerous anthologies.
DANIEL MORGAN is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema (2012) as well as many articles on topics in film theory and aesthetics.
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER is a filmmaker based in London and Copenhagen. His most recent film is The Act of Killing (2012). He is a founding member of the filmmaking collaboration Vision Machine, with whom he worked for over a decade with militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination. He was a senior researcher on the AHRC-funded ‘Genocide and Genre’ project at the University of Westminster, and is the co-editor, with Helena Reckitt, of Acting on AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Politics (1997).
GARRETT STEWART, James O. Freedman Professor of Letters at the University of Iowa, is the author of several books on prose fiction as well as Between Film and Screen: Modernism’s Photo Synthesis and Framed Time: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema (2007). His novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction was awarded the 2011 Barbara and George Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative. He was elected in 2010 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
MICHAEL UWEMEDIMO is a filmmaker, writer and curator, and a founding member of the filmmaking collaboration, Vision Machine. With Vision Machine he developed a performance-based historiography of political violence. Through a series of long-running film projects with survivors and perpetrators of state-sponsored violence, he has been developing a working process in which the production methods and forms of fiction can be combined with the techniques and engagements of documentary. For the past three years Michael has been living and working in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Michael is also a Lecturer in Film at Roehampton University and Project Director, Collaborative Media Advocacy Platform (CMAP).
BRIAN WINSTON, Professor of Communications and Lincoln Chair at the University of Lincoln, started his career in 1963 on Granada TV’s long-running news documentary film series World in Action. In 1985, he won an Emmy for Episode 8 of WNET’s Civilization and the Jews, ‘Out of the Ashes’. He is the author of many books and articles on the documentary, inlcuding Claiming the Real II: Grierson and Beyond (2008), and is general editor of the Nonfictions series from Wallflower Press, of which this volume is a part.