Interview With Franci Duran about her Video Art Installation 8401

Francisca Duran is a Chilean-Canadian, experimental media artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her work takes a critical view of social, political and cultural issues through the aperture of the archive, both familial and public. Utilizing digital and analogue media, her work explores the intersection points of memory, history, politics and technologies of inscription and reproduction. Duran has exhibited nationally and internationally in film festivals, micro-cinemas and galleries, and has received grant support from Canadian arts councils. She holds an MFA in Film Production from York University and a BAH from Queen’s University, and continues to learn from artist run production centers like Gallery 44, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto and Toronto Animated Image Society.

Wibke Schniedermann is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching Centre Coordinator at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Her current research investigates the representation of homelessness in American literature and culture. She completed her PhD on symbolic violence in Henry James’s novels with Frankfurt University. She is co-editor of Class Divisions in Serial Television (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and has published on homelessness in literature, film, and television, on Henry James, the American Western, and the contemporary American novel.