Bio
Gerda Cammaer is a film scholar, curator, and filmmaker specialized in documentary and experimental film. Her artistic work consists of experimental and found-footage films, creative documentaries and mobile cinema. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at festivals, academic conferences and in art galleries. She is the co-founder of the Moving-Image-Arts international short film festival and a collaborator of the international Mobile Innovation Network Association (MINA). She is also co-author (with Jean Bruce) of Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015), co-editor (with Zoe Druick) of Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014) and co-editor (with Blake Fitzpatrick and Bruno Lessard) of Critical Distance in Documentary Media (Palgrave, 2018). Gerda Cammaer is Associate Professor and co-director of the Documentary Media Research Centre (DMRC) in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.