About

Possessing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Oscar Bloomfield is a Film Studies PhD student, arts writer, and academic based between Australia and Europe. His doctoral research concerns the cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni, where his writing explores how Antonioni’s cinema unsettles both ontological and epistemological certainty. Central to Oscar’s research is the hermeneutically unstable, a term he has coined to address the blurred threshold at which Antonioni’s realities begin to bend, and the increasingly narrow distance between the objective and the subjective, the real and the fictive.

Oscar writes for both specialised and general audiences, spanning film studies, contemporary art, and design. He has interviewed a range of international and emerging artists, including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Julius von Bismarck, Lucile Hadžihalilović, and Nick Modrzewski. Alongside his text-based practice, Oscar has presented audiovisual work both in Australia and internationally, most recently completing a solo exhibition consisting of three interrelated films at Quality Gallery in Melbourne.