Jiří Anger

Jiří Anger is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Film, Queen Mary University of London. He also works at the National Film Archive in Prague as a researcher and editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal Iluminace. He specializes in the theory and history of early cinema, archival film, found footage, and videographic criticism.

Anger’s texts and videos have appeared in journals such as NECSUS, Film-Philosophy, The Moving Image, [in]Transition, or Quarterly Review of Film and Video. For the article “Trembling Meaning: Camera Instability and Gilbert Simondon’s Transduction in Czech Archival Film,” he won the Film-Philosophy Annual Article Award 2022.

Anger is the author of the monograph Afekt, výraz, performance: Proměny melodramatického excesu v kinematografii těla (Affect, Expression, Performance: Transformation of the Melodramatic Excess in the Cinema of the Body, 2018). He is currently working on a monograph Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up (Bloomsbury, Thinking Media series), and on an edited volume on the digitization of the earliest Czech films at the National Film Archive in Prague.