Julian Ross (he/him) is Head of Film Programming, Distribution & Exhibitions at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He was previously programmer at Doc Fortnight at The Museum of Modern Art (2023-24), Villa Medici Film Festival (2024), the Flaherty Seminar (2024), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2015-22), and Locarno Film Festival (2019-20). His film programming and curatorial work has also been presented at Tate Modern, Art Institute of Chicago, e-flux Video & Film, Kunsthal Rotterdam, and Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. In 2025, he was on the selection committee for the Frieze x ICA Artists’ Film Programme, the advisory committee for Projections at Art Rotterdam, the advisory committee for De Verbeelding development fund at the Netherlands Filmfond and Mondriaanfond, and the jury for Loop Fair. He was an Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society and holds a PhD on 1960s Japanese expanded cinema at the University of Leeds.

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