Thomas Elsaesser is an international film historian and professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
James Elkins is an art historian and art critic. He is E.C. Chadbourne Chair of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Presented by ARTHEMIS, the Advanced Research Team on History and Epistemology of Moving Image Study, a Concordia University research lab dedicated to investigating the evolution and the various facets of film and moving image studies as disciplinary projects within academia and beyond, in collaboration with the Department of Art History and the Global Emergent Media lab.