About

Possessing a Bachelor’s of Art (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.