Domeitta Torlasco
Northwestern University
Domietta Torlasco is a critical theorist, filmmaker, and associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at Northwestern University. She is the author of two books: The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film (2008) and The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film (2013). Her video essays have screened at national and international venues, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Galerie Campagne Première in Berlin, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. She is currently completing a book titled Rhythm Beyond Measure: Cinema and the Life of Images and an experimental documentary on playgrounds.