About Iqbal Barkat

MICRO-BIO

  • Dr Iqbal Barkat is a digital artist and a filmmaker. He is Senior Lecturer in Screen Production at Macquarie University, Australia. He is a

EXPERIENCE

  • Macquarie University
    • Senior Lecturer in Screen Production
    • Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies (MMCCS)
    • Hadenfeld Ave
    • January 2020 to Present

EDUCATION

  • Western Sydney University
    • PhD
    • March 2009 to September 2014

    I completed my PhD in 2014 at Western Sydney University (WSU) on novelty in cinema, paying particular attention to the practice of early Soviet filmmaker, Dziga Vertov. I argue, throught the philosophy of Alain Badiou, that the work of Vertov and his collective was an epoch-making phenomenon in the history of cinema that both affirmed and challenged cinema’s realtion with the real. Such an event is always avalaible for others to commit to and follow its trajectories.

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