
Dr Miguel Gaggiotti
MA, BA (Hons), PhD
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
Department of Film and Television
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Biography
Research interests
I am a filmmaker and a film scholar. My research focuses on screen performance, ethnographic cinema and experimental filmmaking. My first monograph, Nonprofessional Film Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), examined the work of first-time nonprofessional actors in films ranging from the early silent period to contemporary digital cinema. I currently lead Transforming Voices, a digital platform and research network exploring the voice in non-fiction cinema through collaborative filmmaking.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
The Wounds We Keep: Youth, Trauma And Otherness In The 21st Century
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Film and TelevisionDates
20/02/2023 to 31/10/2023
The Bristol-led Digital Filmmaking Research Network
Principal Investigator
Description
This project seeks to consolidate a Bristol-led network of filmmakers, artists and researchers utilising digital spaces and tools to co-create innovative
audio-visual artworks for researching contemporary social issues.Managing organisational unit
Department of Film and TelevisionDates
24/02/2022 to 31/07/2022
Publications
Selected publications
28/06/2023Nonprofessional Film Performance
Nonprofessional Film Performance
Nonprofessional Acting in El Perro
Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism
The corruption of non-professional performance: Pasolini and Salò
Screen
The non-professional actor in European cinema
Routledge Companion to European Cinema
Reflexivity in audio-visual ethnography: Thinking through practice
Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide
Recent publications
04/03/2025Transforming Voices: exploring women, vulnerability and organizations through experimental audio-visual ethnography
Women, Organizations and Vulnerability
Transforming Voices
Nonprofessional Film Performance
Nonprofessional Film Performance
Reflexivity in audio-visual ethnography: Thinking through practice
Organizational Ethnography: An Experiential and Practical Guide
The corruption of non-professional performance: Pasolini and Salò
Screen
Thesis
Nonprofessional Performance in Fiction Film
Supervisors
Award date
01/10/2019