In her essay, Robertson explores the audiovisual motif of Ophelia in Asato Mari’s, film, a supernatural coming-of-age queer love story
Kate Robertson
Kate Robertson is an Australian-born, New York-based author and critic with a PhD from the University of Sydney. She has written about art, film and culture for a range of publications, including The Atlantic, Complex, i-D, Marie Claire, Paste, Rue Morgue, Senses of Cinema and Vice. Her first book, Identity, Community and Australian Artists, 1890-1914: Paris, London & Further Afield was released with Bloomsbury Academic in 2019 and her second, Trouble Every Day, in the Devil’s Advocates series, in 2021 (Auteur/Liverpool University Press). Recent book chapters include ‘Connection and Reflection through Dark Storytelling: Filmmakers, Community and Women in Horror Film Festivals’, in Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror (2022) and ‘Blood Lust: Realism, Violent Inspiration, and the Artist in Horror Cinema’, in Screening the Art World (2022). Robertson has spoken about film at events such as Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, where she was a jury member in 2022, Ax Wound Film Festival, where she was a judge in 2021, The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, Cine-Excess, Fear 2000, BAFTSS Horror Studies, and The Future of Horror is Female. She has also guested on podcasts including A Year in Horror, Final Girls Feast, Women in Revolt, as well as on the local radio program Your Niche is Dead.
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