About

Possessing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Oscar Bloomfield is a doctoral student, film writer, and casual academic at Deakin University. Focussing on the filmic imaginations of Michelangelo Antonioni, his research situates itself at the axis where critical and creative practice intersect. Drawing upon a diverse range of theoretical contexts, including ‘slow’ aesthetic, phenomenology, and sound theory, Oscar’s work explores how Antonioni’s cinema can be experienced within a contemporary moment seemingly defined by precarity and instability. Extending this, Oscar considers how the filmmaker’s aesthetic confrontations are underpinned by ‘hermeneutically unstable’ space-time continuums, a term he has coined to describe the imperceptibly thin line the filmmaker blurs between ostensibly juxtaposed sensations.

Outside of his doctoral work on Antonioni, Oscar has an unwavering curiosity in all things moving image. He has published on the relationship between filmic and photographic mediums, interviewed Apichatpong Weerasethakul, spoken on the relation between critical and creative practice, lectured on Asian cinema, and presented video essays that explore cinema as a practice deeply embodied in listening.