Dominic Leppla is a PhD candidate at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. He holds an MA in Film and Visual History from Birkbeck, University of London, and received BA degrees in English Literature and Interdisciplinary Film Studies from The Ohio State University. Dominic has worked and written for the British Film Institute’s Screenonline and Mediatheque as well as on BFI film festivals as a web content editor. At Concordia he has served as coordinating online editor for the Permanent Seminar on Histories of Film Theories, about which he has written for Frames Cinema Journal. He has also previously worked as Communications/Mobilization Officer with the Teaching and Research Assistants union at Concordia (TRAC). Currently he teaches film history to Concordia undergrads, who keep him on his toes. Dominic’s dissertation research examines how cinema can organize radical community in the world through a dialectical mobilization of bodies and imaginations. Moving from the thought of Georges Bataille to Raymond Williams he maps the affective solidarities present in work directed by Peter Watkins, Jorge Sanjinés and early Krzysztof Kieślowski.
