Colleen Laird
Dr. Colleen Laird is an Assistant Professor of Japanese Cinema in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). She has published in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, Feminist Media Studies, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, Frames Cinema Journal, and Jump Cut. Three of her video essays were included in the Sight and Sound “Best Video Essays of 2022.” She was the PI for a 2023 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection (SSHRC) Grant for the “Embodying the Video Essay” workshop. She is the lead researcher of the SSHRC funded Japanese Women Directors Project and has produced three series of public-facing educational videos on Japanese cinema as well as interviews with international scholars of Japanese film (hosted on her YouTube channel). Her experiments with videographic criticism live on her Vimeo account.