Max Bowens
Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
mbowens@g.harvard.edu
Max Bowens is a filmmaker and seventh-year PhD Candidate in Film and Visual Studies, with secondary fields in Anthropology and Critical Media Practice. His research concerns the relationship between art and biometrics, and has been supported by the Getty Predoctoral Fellowship, the Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, the Warren Center for Studies in American History, and the Harvard Graduate Society Merit/Term-Time Fellowship.
His films have screened at the Museum of the Moving Image, Anthology Film Archives, Maryland Film Festival, and A.I.R. Gallery. Publications include Film-Philosophy, The Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform, Film Criticism, a chapter in Cinématérialismes: Nouvelles approches matérialistes de l’audiovisuel (Éditions Mimésis), and forthcoming articles in Third Text, Media+Environment and Senses of Cinema. He holds a M.St. from the University of Oxford and a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University.
Max is also an editor, having worked with directors such as Terrence Malick, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Zia Anger, Michael Almereyda, Courtney Stephens, C.W. Winter, Diana Peralta, and Cynthia Madansky.