Jiří Anger is a doctoral candidate in film studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, in Prague. He is also an editor for the peer-reviewed academic journal Iluminace and curator and researcher at the Czech National Film Archive (NFA). His research focuses mainly on figuration and materiality in archival footage, experimental cinema, and videographic film criticism.
His texts and videos have appeared or are awaiting publication in journals such as NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, The Moving Image, Film-Philosophy, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies or Studies in Eastern European Cinema. He is the author of the monograph Afekt, výraz, performance: Proměny melodramatického excesu v kinematografii těla (Affect, Expression, Performance: Transformation of the Melodramatic Excess in the Cinema of the Body). He is currently working on a doctoral thesis titled “Keep That Image Burning: Digital Kříženecký, Found Footage, and the Crack-Up of Archival Moving Image”.
