Project Description
Max Bowens
FSC-Harvard Fellow 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23
Max Bowens is a filmmaker and PhD Candidate in Film and Visual Studies, with secondary fields in Anthropology and Critical Media Practice. His current research focuses on time-based media, black geographies, feminist science and technology studies, and phenomenologies of ephemera. His theoretical work has been published in Film-Philosophy, Film Criticism, and The Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform. Before joining the AFVS Department, he worked as a film editor for Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Terrence Malick. Max holds a M.St. from The University of Oxford, and a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University.
FSC Works
Decalcomania (work-in-progress)
Max Bowens
Decalcomania is a double-portrait of Clovis Theilbaer and the process of imaging autism, as mother and son attempt to correspond with each other through time and the screen.
Aurora (work-in-progress)
Max Bowens
Underneath the surface of the earth, as human beings are reorienting our energetic relations to the natural world, time both flows and ruptures. In Point of Rocks, Wyoming – the largest coal producing state in the U.S. – only one underground coal mine remains. Laborers at Bridger Coal work towards an unknown abyss, and away from one past.