New Book
How can one represent an experience that escapes language? Exile—lived as loss, uprooting, and displacement—finds space for formal and sensory reinvention in cinema. The Exile-Image explores the powers of the cinematic image to reveal this limit-experience. Based on several years of research, this book examines the becoming of the image through the works of four major filmmakers of world cinema: Walter Salles, Andrei Tarkovsky, Glauber Rocha, and Wim Wenders. In dialogue with the thoughts of Gilles Deleuze, Maurice Blanchot, Henri Bergson, Giorgio Agamben, and Walter Benjamin, it offers an unprecedented approach to cinema as a medium of exile. This concept of the Exile-Image—at the intersection of the visible and the absent—renews our understanding of the representation of displacement, memory, and alterity. It is an essential work for thinking about the image through the prism of the contemporary condition of human displacement.
Published on 26 February 2026 (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, France)
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8th Interactive Film & Media International Conference
Yet-To-Be-Known
#IFM2026 International Conference
June 9-12, 2026
Free Registration on Zoom (coming in May)
The 8th Interactive Film and Media Conference is excited to announce its Call for Proposals centered around the provocative and multifaceted theme of “Yet-To-Be-Known.”
We live in trying times. Cascading crises—from climate collapse to social injustice to political upheaval—mean that uncertainty is a defining condition of our moment. But we need not see the horizons before us as insurmountable. Interactive Film and Media invites proposals for its eighth conference that engage with the yet-to-be-known. Here, the yet-to-be-known is interpreted as a space of speculative inquiry and creative possibility. We ask: How might we reimagine knowledge, practice, and being in ways that embrace the indeterminacy we now face? How might we work together to harness the potentials of the here-and-now in order to anticipate new futures?
We aim to explore the speculative as method, as critique, and as world-making gesture; we seek contributions that foreground the emergent, the unstable, and the transformative. Topics will include speculative ecologies, more-than-human ethics, radical pedagogies, future imaginaries of care, experimental archives, and technologies of resistance. Together, let us consider how the yet-to-be-known might become a site of collective imagination and critical intervention.
ACADEMIC NETWORKING
Join a global dialogue on interactivity, innovation, and emerging media futures. Sessions will also allow participants to share their views and profiles, setting the stage for dynamic and meaningful exchanges and networking.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Hudson Moura, Chair (Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly Ryerson, Canada)
Heidi Rae Cooley (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Stefano Odorico (Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland)
Dale Hudson (NYU Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Leah Shafer (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA)
Marta Fiolic (NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Il Sun Moon (Kingston University London, UK)
Logan Acton (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Sonali Sharma (Jamia Millia University, India)
The Interactive Dialogue Sessions, conceived by Professor Patty Zimmermann, are crafted to foster participant engagement through focused daily discussions centered around one of the conference themes. Each day, a prominent scholar or practitioner will lead the discussions, bringing diverse perspectives and insights.
FULL FREE ADMISSION
No fee is charged for presentation and attendance at this conference or publication in the journal.
COMMITMENT TO INCLUSIVITY AND EQUITY
At IFM, we are deeply committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible environment. In our work, we prioritize inclusive accessibility and parity for protected identities including gender, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation. We encourage applicants to align with these values and contribute to creating a welcoming and empowering space for all. Get familiar with Our Commitments.
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Watch my interview on Global News, where I discuss the box office success of Superman directed by James Gunn, and explore how the film engages with contemporary political themes—including parallels to the rhetoric and politics of Donald Trump’s ongoing influence. Read my full film review of Superman (2025): Truth, Justice, and Geopolitics
https://globalnews.ca/video/11296601/political-undertones-in-blockbuster-films
“Superman” continues to dominate the box office, but beneath the capes and superpowers, some viewers are pointing to political parallels in the storyline. From references to global conflicts like Israel-Palestine and Russia Ukraine to broader commentary on power and justice, blockbuster films have long been a lens for real-world issues. Hudson Moura, politics and film professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, joins Miranda Anthistle to discuss how cinema shapes public discourse.
Chronique Cinéma
Découvrez les critiques de films présentées dans Dans la Mosaïque sur Ici Première de Radio-Canada Toronto ! Un vendredi sur deux à 17h30. Je analyse les œuvres marquantes de la saison. Dans la section Chronique Cinéma, accédez aux critiques complètes, explorez en profondeur ces films, et écoutez les rediffusions des émissions pour ne rien manquer.
Film Festival Reviews
ImagineNATIVE 2026
More than a showcase, imagineNATIVE, which takes place June 2–7, 2026 in Toronto and June 8–14, 2026 online, offers audiences a chance to encounter the distinct ways Indigenous filmmakers are appropriating cinema on their own terms, adapting the medium to particular storytelling traditions that often challenge dominant conventions of editing, pace, rhythm, characterization, and narrative progression.
Inside Out 2026
The Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, once again confirms its importance as one of the most vibrant spaces for sexual diversity cinema in Canada and beyond. What makes this year’s edition especially compelling is the breadth of its programming: comedy, drama, documentary, experimental work, and several highly anticipated Canadian films, including world premiers.
You can read my reviews of the films presented in the festival here.
Hot Docs 2026
Hot Docs is a major international space for documentary cinema that is both politically engaged and formally attentive to the complexities of the contemporary world. This year’s programming focus on political struggles, historical memory, cultural identities, gender issues, technological transformations, and urgent social crises all emerge as central themes.
You can read my reviews of the films presented in the festival here.
Cinéfranco 2025
Toronto’s annual showcase of Francophone cinema, returns to the Carlton Cinema from November 7 to 16, 2025 with a rich lineup of award-winning features from Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa. This year’s edition foregrounds women’s voices, social dramas, and crowd-pleasing comedies, and features several films straight from Cannes, including the opening film Amélie Bonin’s Partir un Jour, Jeunes Mères by Dardenne brothers and Dossier 137 by Dominik Moll. All screenings are in French with English subtitles.
You can read my reviews of the films presented in the festival here.
Dossiê Jerusa
An hommage and an extensive collection of Professor Jerusa Pires Ferreira’s articles, conferences, and books’ reviews.
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