Mark Nash (film historian)

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Mark Nash is an independent curator, film historian, and filmmaker with a specialisation in contemporary avant-garde and world cinema. He is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where he founded the Isaac Julien Lab [1] with his partner and long-time collaborator, Isaac Julien. [2] He has a PhD from Middlesex University and an MA from Cambridge University.

He is the author of Theory Culture (Language, Discourse, Society). [3] He was co-curator of Documenta 11 (2002) [4] and film curator of the Berlin Biennial (2004). [5] He curated Experiments with Truth (Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, 2004-5). [6] He is a former editor of Screen.

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References

  1. "Mark Nash". Isaac Julien. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
  2. "Mark Nash | danm.ucsc.edu". danm.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
  3. Nash, Mark (2008). Screen theory culture. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN   0-230-00874-7. OCLC   187548998.
  4. "documenta11 - Retrospective - documenta". www.documenta.de. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
  5. "- Biennales - Berlin Biennale". www.berlinbiennale.de. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
  6. "Experiments with Truth The Fabric Workshop and Museum Philadelphia". 1995-2015.undo.net (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-04-30.