
Cormac Donnelly
Liverpool Screen School
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: C.P.Donnelly@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 2171
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