Evelyn Kreutzer
Media Scholar, Video Essayist, Curator
Evelyn Kreutzer is a media scholar, video essayist, and curator. She earned her Ph.D. in Screen Cultures from Northwestern University in the United States. At the Università della Svizzera italiana, she co-leads a research group on the video essay, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is a founding member of the feminist art collective “Dear Rageuses” and serves as an editor for [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Images Studies. Her video essays have been screened at venues including the Locarno Film Festival, the Museum of the Moving Image, and the Hammer Museum.
During her fellowship, Evelyn Kreutzer will be investigating how Los Angeles as a film city and Hollywood as a global cultural myth are changing in the age of AI: What impact does AI have on our trust in the documentary truth of cinema and on L.A.’s status as a site of film-historical memory?
Selected Awards
Since 2018 | Continuous nominations on the British Film Institute’s annual Sight & Sound poll of the “Best video essays of the year”
2024 | with Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto: Three-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation in the social sciences and humanities, for the research group “The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies” in Lucerne and Lugano, Switzerland
2022 | Walter Benjamin Fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Selected Publications
2027 | Televising Taste: Performing Classical Music on American Screens. Ann Arbor: Lever Press/University of Michigan Publishing Services.
2026 | “What ‘The Twilight Zone’ Can Teach Us About the Future of Cinema.” In: Swissnex Online Blog.
https://swissnex.org/sanfrancisco/news/what-the-twilight-zone-can-teach-us-about-the-future-of-cinema/
2025 | with Silvia Cipelletti. “Locarno parla italiano – 404!: Glitching Locarno Film Festival.” In: NECSUS, Spring 2025.
https://necsus-ejms.org/locarno-parla-italiano-404-glitching-locarno-film-festival/.
Also published in: The Future of Survival, ed. Kevin B. Lee. Berlin: diaphanes, pp. 115–124.