Dr Thierry Jutel

Head of School
School of English Film Theatre and Media Studies
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Qualifications

BA Université de Nantes
MA Virginia
PhD Maryland

Current Research Projects

Thierry Jutel is working on the study of contemporary cinema as an aesthetic, cultural, social, technological, and industrial object. This includes essays on the "Red" camera, Steven Soderbergh's Che: Part 1 and 2 and digital cinema aesthetics; narrative slowness in the Coen's No Country for Old Men; and with Jean-Philippe Loret on cinematic badlands. These projects are currently under review. He's now developing new research (and creative work) on the cinematic in visual culture, workflow and the industrial and technological organization of cinema's post-production, and representations of the Desert Road on the North Island.

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Research and Supervisory Interests

Thierry Jutel is interested in supervising research at MA and PhD levels in the areas of media and cultural industries, including contemporary cinema and specifically in the contexts of NZ, American and French societies.

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Recent Publications

Jutel, Thierry. “No Country for Old Men, Visual Regime, Mental Image and Narrative Slowness”. Senses of Cinema 60 (October 2011) http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2011/feature-articles/no-country-for-old-men-visual-regime-mental-image-and-narrative-slowness/  

Buettner, Angi, Thierry Jutel, Tony Schirato and Geoff Stahl (2010). Understanding Media Studies. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.

Jutel, Thierry (2008) 'The Cinema of Peter Jackson' in Margolis, Harriet, Sean Cubitt, Barry King and Thierry Jutel, eds (2008). Studying the Film-Event: The Lord of the Rings. Manchester University Press. pp 100–107.

Jutel Thierry and Tony Schirato 'Media Interactivity and Fantasy Sport'. New Zealand Journal of Media Studies 11:1 (June 2008): 32–46. http://www.nzmediastudies.org.nz/

Jutel, Thierry (2007). "Societies of Control, Compulsory Ecstasy and the Neo-Liberal Subject". Junctures 8 (June): 27–38. http://www.junctures.org/

Jutel, Thierry (2004) "The Lord of the Rings: Landscape, Transformation and the Geography of the Virtual." Cultural Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Edited by Claudia Bell and Steve Matthewman. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. pp 54–65.

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Recent Creative Work

Jutel, Thierry (2010), Creative Producer, x.o.genesis, a short experimental stop-motion, digital film (12 minutes), with James Robinson and Rowan Wernham (director). Music and sound effects by Chris Knox (http://xogenesis.com). Produced with a grant from the Screen Innovation Production Fund (Creative New Zealand, NZ Film Commission).

Selected for the following international film festivals:

• Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, USA. 21-27 January 2011
• The Los Angeles New Wave International Film Festival, 7-11 May 2011. Awarded "Best Concept" and Second Place in the Experimental Film Category
• BigPond Adelaide Film Festival, Australia. 24 Feb-6 March 2011 
• Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, 5-8 May 2011
• Athens International Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival, Greece, 10-16 March 2011
• Glasgow Short Film Festival, Scotland. 18-20 February 2011
• New Zealand International Film Festival. July 2009 (work in process screening)
• Aguilar de Campoo "Five Continents" Short Film Fest (Spain), 3-7 December 2010

Jutel, Thierry (2007) Producer and co-writer, Why I Ate Myself. Digital film directed by Kelly Pendergrast. Produced with a grant from the Screen Innovation Production Fund (Creative New Zealand, NZ Film Commission).

• Selected for Independent Exposure Festival USA 2007, screened in San Francisco, Seattle and Fairbanks.
• Selected for Short Fuse programme, Moving Image Centre, Auckland, April 2007.
• Selected "Animation: From the Avant-Garde to Popular Culture" which was held in conjunction with the San Diego Museum of Art's "Animated Painting" exhibition. The film was screened was screened at the Museum of Photographic Arts, Saturday November 3.