Colm McAuliffe
Colm McAuliffe is a writer and curator from Co. Cork. He collaborates with artists and filmmakers, creating films, exhibitions, live performances, and books. His first book, Film, In Theory, is a cultural history of the British Film Institute’s engagement with contemporary European theory, and will be published by Bloomsbury in 2024. He was a co-investigator on the award winning Make Film History project which opened up the archives from the BBC, BFI, Irish Film Archive, and Northern Ireland Screen for creative reuse by emerging filmmakers and artists, producing over 100 films during 2020-2022.
He has also worked with artists including Mica Levi, Stephen Mallinder, and Jennifer Walshe on conceptual film projects, and has curated exhibitions and film programmes with Whitechapel Gallery, Institut français, Leeds Film, Cork Film Festival, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and many more.
He has written on popular and unpopular culture for The Guardian, the Irish Times, New Statesman, frieze, The Quietus and has given lectures and talks at Trinity College, Cambridge; Selwyn College, Cambridge; the Freud Museum, London; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Lonon; the British Film Institute; and many more.
He is also generally great craic.
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Colm McAuliffe is a writer and curator from Co. Cork. He collaborates with artists and filmmakers, creating films, exhibitions, live performances, and books. His first book, Film, In Theory, is a cultural history of the British Film Institute’s engagement with contemporary European theory, and will be published by Bloomsbury in 2024. He was a co-investigator on the award winning Make Film History project which opened up the archives from the BBC, BFI, Irish Film Archive, and Northern Ireland Screen for creative reuse by emerging filmmakers and artists, producing over 100 films during 2020-2022.
He has also worked with artists including Mica Levi, Stephen Mallinder, and Jennifer Walshe on conceptual film projects, and has curated exhibitions and film programmes with Whitechapel Gallery, Institut français, Leeds Film, Cork Film Festival, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and many more.
He has written on popular and unpopular culture for The Guardian, the Irish Times, New Statesman, frieze, The Quietus and has given lectures and talks at Trinity College, Cambridge; Selwyn College, Cambridge; the Freud Museum, London; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Lonon; the British Film Institute; and many more.
He is also generally great craic.
