About

Possessing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Oscar Bloomfield is a doctoral student, 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 intersect. Engaging with a diverse range of theoretical contexts — including phenomenology, photography, and sound theory — Oscar’s work explores how Antonioni’s cinema can be experience within a contemporary moment seemingly defined by instability and precarity. Central to Oscar’s research is the hermeneutically unstable, a term he has coined to describe Antonioni’s abstract temporospatial economies.

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

Oscar’s writing extends moving image practice. He has recently covered numerous exhibitions and collections across Australia, with regular contributions in to Be magazine.