Max Holzberg is a Montréal based curator, filmmaker, and cultural worker. In 2020 Max obtained his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Film Studies from Concordia University’s, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and is continuing on at Concordia to pursue his MA in Film Studies. Max has worked on a number of curatorial projects such as: FNC: Spotlight on Concordia Fine Arts (2019), Nouveau Cineastes, Dazibao Image (2019), and the 46th Concordia Film Festival (2018-2019). As a filmmaker, Max produced a four part mini-series for MaTV’s My Curious City (2018) as well as Elspeth McConnell: An Extraordinary Legacy (2019); a film jointly commissioned by the MUHC and Doggone Foundation. Currently, Max is writing his SSHRC funded thesis “Replaying the Past: Queer Canadian Documentary as Counter-Archival Practice” a project which examines queer Canadian documentary film as a form of counter-archive that questions collective memory, identity, and nationalism.
Top Concordian Graduate Entrance Scholarship
John and Oksana Locke First 100 Years of Cinema Award
SSHRC CGS-M
Supervisor: Dr. May Chew
Thesis Title:Replaying the Past: Queer Canadian Documentary Film as a Counter-Archival Practice
Research Interests:
queer cinema
documentary and experimental film
autobiographical and auto-ethnographic filmmaking practices
film history
archival studies
national cinemas
film and cultural labour
settler colonial studies
cultural and social policy
new media
Teaching/Taships:
Winter 2021 FMST 203/4 B FILM HISTORY III
Selected Publications:
Holzberg, Max. "Patti Harrison’s Self(ie) Negotiated Trans Gaze" In Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History, Volume XVI, 2020
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