Alisa Lebow is a documentary filmmaker, scholar, and
writer. She holds a doctorate in Cinema Studies from New York University.
She
currently teaches both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in film
studies at the University of Sussex, UK, and conducts research that
explores the intersection of the aesthetic and the political in documentary
film and related media.
She has written extensively on first person film as a
culturally and ideologically imbricated practice of identity production. She is
intrigued by the intersection between practice and theory, and her most recent
work attempts to perform film studies intermedially.
Alisa is originally from
NY and currently lives in London.
In addition to her academic work, Alisa has curated
programs for the Barbican Cinema, The Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul Modern, The Arnolfini Gallery
and other venues. She is the Documentary Advisor for the Istanbul Film Festival
and has served on juries for several international documentary film festivals as
well.
Her films include For the Record:
The World Tribunal on Iraq (co-directed with Zeynep Dadak, Enis Köstepen,
and Başak Ertür, 2007), Treyf (co-directed with Cynthia Madansky, 1998),
Internal Combustion (co-directed with Cynthia Madansky, 1995) and Outlaw
(1994).
