Dr. Auguiste focuses his research on the historical formation of national cinemas and their emergence and evolution in transnational contexts. More specifically, he focuses on the critical media practices of the experimental and avant-garde movements in Soviet and post-Soviet media arts practice, the discourses of modernity in Iranian cinema, Chinese cinema of the Fifth Generation, African/African Diaspora cinema and the documentary form--the essay film, philosophical aesthetics and investigations into the use of archives (moving image and photographs) in documentary cinema.
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national and transnational cinemas, non-fiction documentary Media practices, emergent arts technologies, cross-platform media arts practices, african and black diaspora cinemas, film theory & criticism/philosophical aesthetics, archival studies, collaborative arts practice
