Julian Ross (he/him) is a curator, researcher and writer based in Amsterdam.

I am co-programmer of Doc Fortnight (The Museum of Modern Art, with Sophie Cavoulacos, 2023 & 2024) and co-programmer of the upcoming 69th Flaherty Seminar (with May Adadol Ingawanij, 2024). I was a Programmer at International Film Festival Rotterdam (2015-22) and Locarno Film Festival (2019-20), film curator at Other Futures (2021) and a guest programmer at Singapore International Film Festival (2021). I curated film programmes, exhibitions and performances at Tate Modern, The Art Institute of Chicago, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Eye Filmmuseum, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, e-flux Video & Film, Harvard Film Archive and British Film Institute. I am an editorial board member of Collaborative Cataloging Japan, a non-profit dedicated to preserving Japanese experimental film, and co-curator with May Adadol Ingawanij of Animistic Apparatus.

I am an Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). I was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media (CREAM) at University of Westminster, where I was a recipient of a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for a project on the afterlife of the carousel slide projector in contemporary art. At CREAM, I was a research associate of May Adadol Ingawanij’s British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. I did my PhD on Japanese 1960-70s expanded cinema at the University of Leeds. I am founding co-director of ReCNTR, an interdisciplinary research centre on multimodal and audiovisual research methods at Leiden University. My current research interests are translation in artists’ film and documentary, air art, group discussion and collectivity, and preservation of space and performance.

My recent writing can be found in Film Comment and Notebook (issue 2) as well as in the edited collections A Companion to Experimental Cinema and The Moving Form of Film.

CONTACT

julian [dot] akira [dot] ross [at] gmail [dot] com
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