Adam Kossoff
Reader in the Moving Image
Media
University of Wolverhampton
United Kingdom
Biography
Adam Kossoff is a filmmaker-artist and writer whose research has been funded by the AHRC and the Arts Council. In the past few years his experimental and essayistic films have travelled the world to film festivals and screenings and are distributed by Lux.org. His work explores the spaces and places we live, and how the history of these spaces affect and move us in the present. His more recent work includes How They Hate Us (2016), U-Turn (2016), Animal Architecture (2014) and The Anarchist Rabbi (2014). He has recently screened and exhibited work at the London Film Festival (2016), Montreal World Film Festival (2016), the ICA (2016), East End Film Festival (2015), Wolverhampton Art Gallery (2015), Dudley Zoo (2015), and Whitechapel Gallery (2014), amongst others.
Research Interest
An artist-filmmaker and writer, Kossoff’s work addresses and questions the relationship of the moving image to different spatial and technological contexts. His recent practice includes essayistic documentaries on Palestine/Israel, nationalism and otherness, architecture and otherness and the relationship between space and place.
