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B-Side, Track 4: The Celluloid Specimen — with Joe Clark and Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
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This episode of Below the Radar B-Sides is guest hosted by Joe Clark, term assistant professor at SFU鈥檚 School for the Contemporary Arts.
He is joined by Benjam铆n Schultz-Figueroa, Assistant Professor in Film Studies at Seattle University, and author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life. Together, they chat about their shared interest in non-theatrical film, and the histories and speculative futures of scientific filmmaking.
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Joseph Clark
Joseph Clark (PhD, Brown University) is an educator, filmmaker, researcher, and arts programmer.
His research and teaching interests focus on archival and non-theatrical media, including newsreels, home movies, and sponsored film. He is the author of News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and the director of the short film Persistence & Loss (2021). He is a long-time member of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival Programming Committee and part of the organizing committee of the Vancouver Podcast Festival.
Benjam铆n Schultz-Figueroa
Dr. Benjam铆n Schultz-Figueroa is an Assistant Professor in Film Studies at Seattle University.
His research focuses on the history of scientific filmmaking, nontheatrical film, and animal studies. Among other venues, his writing has been published in JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Film History, Journal of Environmental Media. His book The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life was published by UC Press in February, 2023.
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Clark, Joseph. 鈥淭he Celluloid Specimen 鈥� with Joe Clark and Benjam铆n Schultz-Figueroa.鈥� Below the Radar, SFU鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, August 12, 2025. /vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/btr-bsides-celluloid-specimen.html.
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