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Andre Seewood

PhD Candidate, Associate Instructor

Pronouns:
He, Him, His

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Email:
aseewood@iu.edu
Website:
https://vimeo.com/legrandchien1

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  • facebook
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • vimeo

Research and Creative Interests

  • narrative theory
  • race in media
  • film and music production
  • screenwriting
  • cognitive dissonance theory
  • French New Wave Cinema
  • New German Cinema
  • L.A. Rebellion Cinema
  • Italian Neo-Realism
  • Robert Bresson
  • Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Foucault
  • Nietzsche
  • Althusser...
  • Cedric J. Robinson
  • Albert Camus
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Saussure
  • Lacan
  • Henri Bergson
  • Russian Formalists
  • Structuralism
  • Claude Levi-Strauss
  • The Cocteau Twins
  • Roman Polanski
  • Jean-Luc Godard
  • Jean-Pierre Melville
  • Agnes Varda
  • Julie Dash
  • Ava DuVerney
  • Luis Bunuel
  • Rene Magritte
  • Caravaggio
  • James Baldwin
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • The Child in Film
  • Transnational Cinema
  • Funk and Jazz Music
  • Film Scores (Herrmann, Morricone, Rota, Goldsmith, Feilding)
  • Prince
  • Black Film

Biography

André Seewood is a multiple award winning independent filmmaker, writer and musician. He is a distinguished recipient of the Indiana University President’s Diversity Dissertation Fellowship 2022/23 at Indiana University- Bloomington and the Dennis Turner Memorial Film Studies Scholarship from Wayne State University in 2008.  He is the author of SCREENWRITING INTO FILM: Forgotten Methods & New Possibilities (2006), SLAVE CINEMA: The Crisis of the African-American in Film 2nd Edition (2011) and (DISMANTLING) The Greatest Lie Ever Told to the Black Filmmaker: Collected Essays on Film (2015).  He is also a major contributor to the Indiewire.com/Shadow & Act blog and his articles have sparked an international conversation about the marginalization of Black filmmakers in the global marketplace.  His award winning films are streaming on-line via Vimeo.com.  His music under the name, DRAYALI is available on all music streaming platforms. He has a Master’s Degree in French and a B.A. in Film Studies.  He is currently pursuing his PhD. in Media Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington.

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