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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 writing both fiction and non-fiction. 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 2025. 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 produced experimental films with composers Mica Levi and Stephen Mallinder, written on popular and unpopular culture for The Guardian, Sight & Sound, The Quietus, New Statesman and has lectured at Birkbeck Colllege, Goldsmiths College, Selwyn College, Cambridge and Guildhall School of Music.
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