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Cormac Donnelly

Liverpool Screen School

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

Dr Cormac Donnelly is a Senior Lecturer in Film at Liverpool John Moores University. His research interests include Film Sound, Film Craft and Videographic Criticism. He has published video essays in NECSUS, The Cine-Files, [in]Transition, and Screenworks and is an associate editor at the journal [in]Transition.

Degrees

2025, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, PhD
2016, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom, MSc Sound Design

Academic appointments

Senior Lecturer in Film, Screen School, Liverpool John Moores University, 2022 - present

Dataset

Donnelly C. 2024. Sound Stack, Soundwalk, Southworth DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Journal article

Donnelly C. 2024. Sound Stack, Soundwalk, Southworth Screenworks, 15 DOI Publisher Url

Donnelly C. 2021. I am Sitting in a Room, Listening to Mank Screenworks, 12 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Donnelly C. 2020. Sonic Chronicle, Post Sound Greene LIZ. NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, 9 :453-456 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Donnelly C. 2020. “THE STORY OF A DREAM,” ON NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Avissar ARIEL, Kreutzer EVELYN. The Cine-Files, 15 Publisher Url Public Url

Donnelly C. 2019. Pan Scan Venkman Benson-Allott CAETLIN, Shackleton CHARLIE. {in}Transition, Publisher Url Public Url

Internet publication

Donnelly C. 2024. Calibrating for Kindness. A Pedagogical Encounter with Video Essay Students Publisher Url Public Url

Donnelly C. 2023. A Tactile Art DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Donnelly C. 2023. Sound Before Picture DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Film

Donnelly C. 2022. Can I Remember It Differently? Publisher Url Public Url

Book review

Donnelly C. 2022. The Spanish quinqui film: delinquency, sound, sensation Studies in European Cinema, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Other invited event:

Museum of the Moving Image, New York, My video essay 'Pan Scan Venkman' screened as part of this special event. This screening series presents a selection of video essays from across the 21st century that offer a spectrum of the medium’s possibilities, featuring authors who work in a self-defined space somewhere between film studies and experimental filmmaking. Programmed for the Museum of the Moving Image by Will DiGravio, John Gibbs, Evelyn Kreutzer, Kevin B. Lee, and Mara Oliva, Expanded Screens: The Video Essay. 2025

Lucerne, Switzerland, Invited researcher at a four day research and practice conference organised by Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts as part of the 'Video Essay: Futures of Audiovisual Research and Teaching' project, Video Essay Theory & Practice Conference. 2022

Herrenhausen Palace Hanover, Invited speaker on the panel “Field Reports (by (Artistic) PhD Candidates and Supervisors” at the symposium co-organised by the Leibniz University Hannover & Filmuniversität Babelsberg, Videography: Art and Academia. Epistemological, Political and Pedagogical Potentials of Audiovisual Practices. 2022

Aarhus University (Online), Invited speaker on the panel ‘Personal Exploration’, Interrogating the Modes of Videographic Criticism. 2022

Conference presentation:

Oral presentation, Lucerne School of Art & Design Switzerland, In the Works - Manking and Un-makings of the Video Essay, In Dialogue: Embodying and Disembodying the Video Essayist’s Voice. 2023

Video Essay Presentation, UMass Amherst, Massachusetts, The Theory and Practice of the Video-essay, Sound Stack - On Sonic Chronicle, Post Sound. 2022

Oral presentation, University of Glasgow, Screen Conference, Listening as a Homeless Ghost - Sound, Space, and Perspective in Panic Room. 2022

Oral presentation, Futureworks Manchester, Technology & Tradition, Monochromasonics - the sound of Black & White nostalgia. 2021

Oral presentation, University of Wolverhampton, Kathryn Bigelow: A Visionary Director, Chasing the Narrative - Re-situating the Action in Point Break. 2019

Oral presentation, Bangor University, 40 Years of Alien, Selling the Star Beast: Alien and trailer logic. 2019

Oral presentation, Cardiff University, 25 Years of Jurassic Park (1993): An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Palaeontological Imaginatio, The Sonic Suggestion of Dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park franchise. 2018

Award:

BAFTSS, Shortlisted for Best Videographic Film Criticism, https://vimeo.com/666098921. 2023

BAFTSS, Shortlisted for Best Videographic Film Criticism, https://vimeo.com/320854561. 2021

Video Essay Film Festival & the Cinema Foundation for Rome, Stylistic Form Award, https://vimeo.com/401464305. 2020

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