Conorr Norquay

Conorr Norquay is a PhD student in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University. He received his BA from the Cinema Studies Institute of University of Toronto in 2024. His dissertation explores the emerging small-gauge technologies and organized information systems that shaped Canada's nontheatrical industry throughout the twentieth century. Alongside Drs. Paul S. Moore and Jessica L. Whitehead, Conorr is also a researcher with the Canadian History of Media Exhibition Research Archive (CHiMERA), a project dedicated to digitizing and making accessible Canadian media records to document the exhibition and business history of media in Canada. Currently, he is producing the first comprehensive statistical genealogy of 8mm and 16mm projectors in Canada.

Supervisor: Dr. Haidee Wasson

Thesis Title: A Second-Order Cybernetics Approach to New Cinema History Through Canadian Nontheatrical Film Information and Communication Infrastructures, 1917-1976

Research Interests: Canadian Film History, New Cinema History, Film Exhibition Technologies, Archival Studies, Cybernetics and Information Theory

Teaching / TAShips: FMST 201: Film History I (Fall 2024)

Selected Publications: Keil, Charlie and Conorr Norquay, "'The Geography of Our Own Ambition': Eight Filmmakers Recall the Toronto New Wave," in Revisiting a Golden Era: Canadian Cinema of the 1980s and 90s, eds. Lee Carruthers and Charles Tepperman (McGill-Queen's University Press, forthcoming).

Website: https://www.mediahistory.ca/about-chimera

Favourite Film: House Arrest (2013, dir. Richard Kerr)