Fabio Andrade

Fabio Andrade, assistant professor of Film, received his PhD from NYU, having passed his dissertation defense with distinction. He is also a filmmaker and artist, with an MFA from Columbia University, and a BA in Communications from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). His research interests include Latin American cinema and video, Lusophone cinemas, hybrid practices, experimental nonfiction filmmaking, film criticism, and sound.

Between 2007 and 2017, he published film criticism regularly at Cinética, and became one of the magazine’s editors in 2010. His essays on film and visual arts have been published by vehicles such as the Criterion Collection, Film Quarterly, Film Comment, Cinema Tropical, Berlinale, Kino Lorber, Filmmaker Magazine, Filme Cultura, Aniki, DAAD, IFFR, as well as several chapters in books and catalogs. Upcoming publications include journal articles and book chapters on Alberto Cavalcanti's Rien que les Heures (1926); monstrosity and underdevelopment in contemporary Brazilian cinema; the recurrence of deceased narrators in two recent Chilean documentaries; a genealogy of politically engaged experimental documentary in Brazil; and the use of bird's-eye-view shots by international experimental filmmakers and video artists working in Latin America.

He also programs and directs films, and has collaborated with filmmakers and artists such as Eryk Rocha, Thomas Elsaesser, Paula Gaitán, Gabriel Mascaro, José Eduardo Belmonte, Fellipe Barbosa, Fabio Baldo, Bruno Safadi, Sergio Bianchi, Daniel Lentini, Raphael Erichsen, Ramon Porto Mota, Juliano Gomes, Leonardo Bittencourt, Marc Ohrem-Leclef, Maurílio Martins, Raul Arthuso, Rodrigo de Oliveira, and Thiago Taves Sobreiro.