Guy Harris

Dr. Guy Harris is a cinema history scholar and creative practitioner from Melbourne, Australia.

With a special interest in the relationship between sound and the moving image, his work has been presented in contexts ranging from art galleries, live music venues and cinema theatres to some of Australia’s most iconic cultural spaces such as the Melbourne Recital Centre and The Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

He is a founding member of AV ensemble The Spheres and experimental post-punk duo, Winternationale.

Recently completing his PhD in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, the research focus of his doctoral thesis Kinotopia: A history of cinematic democratisation for the digital age took a media archaeology approach to understanding the phenomenon of ‘cinematic democratisation’ that has attended the emergence of digital cinema.

With formal training in media arts and narrative filmmaking from The Victorian College of the Arts and RMIT University, Guy’s areas of creative interest and specialisation include experimental film practices, expanded cinema, silent cinema, video installation and live multi-source projection art as a suite of divergent creative practices that explore the conflux of music and the moving image.

His research interests and specialisations include the history of 20th century counter-cinema, media archaeology, expanded cinema history and practice, the evolution of digital cinema, The London Film-makers’ Co-op, France’s Cinema of ’68, South America’s Tercer Cine movement and early Soviet Cinema.