Author David McCooey & Oscar Bloomfield

David McCooey & Oscar Bloomfield

David McCooey is a prize-winning poet, critic, and editor. In addition to his publications on Australian life writing and poetry, he has written on the relationship between poetry and film. He is Professor of Writing and Literature at Deakin University in Geelong. Oscar Bloomfield is a PhD student and casual academic at Deakin University. His research examines how Michelangelo Antonioni's cinema can be experienced within a contemporary moment seemingly defined by loneliness and instability, paying particular attention to how the filmmaker embodies the visceral experiences intrinsic to late-stage capitalism.

Film and the Nonhuman Technology of Photography: Blowup and Godland

David McCooey & Oscar Bloomfield

May 2024

Film and the Nonhuman

Filmmakers have long been fascinated with photography’s ability to thematise the productive, typically resistant, interplay between the human and the nonhuman, where the ‘nonhuman’ can refer to both technology ...