Sandra Lim
Biography
Dr. Sandra Lim is an academic and an award-winning multi-media film and video artist. She holds an MA in Film Studies from University College Dublin, and a PhD in Art and Design from the University of Brighton in the UK, with a focus on research through practice for the moving image. She regularly writes critical reviews on a variety of films for digital and print platforms and has also been making short experimental documentary art films for over 10 years. Her practice-based research is informed by British avant-garde and experimental cinema traditions, and is characterized as being performative, musical, and grounded in autoethnographic and archival practice. Her films and art often address political realities and relations experienced at the levels of the personal and the global, much of which has been screened and exhibited in gallery, academic and film festival settings, both locally and internationally. Her moving image work is catalogued and distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre Toronto, the Canadian Film and Video streaming on demand platform VUCAVU, as well as the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage VMACCH.
- “Realism, Morality and Care in Where Is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987) (external link) .” Senses of Cinema: Cinémathèque Annotations on Film 95 (July 2020).
- Reproduced in the program of Reaching Beyond the Frame: The Poetic Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami. Melbourne Cinémathèque, 01 September 2020.
- “The Tribulations of the Working Class: Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948). (external link) ” Senses of Cinema: Cinémathèque Annotations on Film 93 (February 2020).
- Reproduced in the program (print only) of Vittorio De Sica: Cinema Italian Style. Melbourne Cinémathèque, 12 February 2020.
- Reproduced in the program (print only) of Vittorio De Sica: Cinema Italian Style. Melbourne Cinémathèque, 12 February 2020.
- "Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954): A 'Superwestern' from the Postwar Hollywood Left. (external link) " Senses of Cinema: Cinémathèque Annotations on Film 90 (March 2019).
- Reproduced in the program of Moral Crucibles: The Films of Robert Aldrich. Melbourne Cinémathèque, 01 May 2019.
- Reproduced in the program of Moral Crucibles: The Films of Robert Aldrich. Melbourne Cinémathèque, 01 May 2019.
- "Rehabilitating the Hollywood Left in Thom Andersen and Noël Burch's Red Hollywood (1996/2014). (external link) " Senses of Cinema: Cinémathèque Annotations on Film 86 (March 2018).
- Reproduced in the program of Without Compromise: Thom Andersen’s America. Melbourne Cinémathèque, 23 May 2018.
- Reproduced in the program of Without Compromise: Thom Andersen’s America. Melbourne Cinémathèque, 23 May 2018.
- “Revisiting Playtime's Style of Comic Democracy (external link) .” Senses of Cinema 82 (March 2017).
- Linked from MUBI: “Revisiting Playtime’s Style of Comic Democracy. (external link) " Critics Reviews (December 2018).
- Linked from MUBI: “Revisiting Playtime’s Style of Comic Democracy. (external link) " Critics Reviews (December 2018).
- “Individualism and Populism in Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe (1941) (external link) .” Senses of Cinema: Cinémathèque Annotations on Film 78 (March 2016).
- Reproduced in the program of Barbara Stanwyck: Ball of Fire. Melbourne Cinémathèque, 23 March 2016.
- Reproduced in the program of Barbara Stanwyck: Ball of Fire. Melbourne Cinémathèque, 23 March 2016.
- Review of Auto/pathographies, ed. Tamar Tembeck. Sagamie édition d’art, 114 p. (Montréal: Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec; Ottawa: Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2014). Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 15:1 (2015).
- “Underground. (external link) ” Screenworks 5.1 (2014).
- “Xapiri: at the Juncture of History, Experience, and Technology.” In Proceedings of the 2nd International Interactive Narratives, New Media & Social Engagement Conference, ed. Hudson Moura, Ricardo Sternberg, Regina Cunha, Cecília Queiroz, and Martin Zeilinger, 101-106. Toronto: University of Toronto (ISBN 978-0-9939520-0-5 (external link) ), 2014.
Dr. Lim's research interests include:
- Politics and Aesthetics
- Film Criticism
- Practice-Based Research (Artist Film and Video, Documentary Art, Autoethnography, Family Archives).
POL128/CPOL128: Politics and Film
Dr. Lim's professional memberships include:
- British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
- College Art Association of America
- Factory Media Hamilton
- Hamilton Artists Inc.
- Ontario Teacher Certification (OTC)
- Ryerson Centre for Digital Humanities