Maud Ceuterick

I am a film, TV, and digital media researcher, originally from Belgium, and currently leading the collaborative European DIGISCREENS project on streaming industry practices, representation and audiences (“Identities and Democratic Values on European Digital Screens: Distribution, Reception, and Representation”, CHANSE 2022-2025). I use video-essays as a research and dissemination method whenever I can.

Previously, I worked in public relations for the Love Film Festival of Mons in Belgium, as content developer in the TV production company Vamos@VerTelevisión in Madrid (Spain), and as language teacher and translator in French, English and Spanish.

I have a PhD in film and media studies from the University of Otago (New Zealand) and have been employed as researcher and lecturer in film studies, TV and film production, and digital culture at the University of Bergen (2018-present) after obtaining a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. My research concentrates on gender, space and power relations on screen, which appears in my monograph Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women: Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema (Open access, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). I have published several articles on gender and sexuality, space and power relations in contemporary cinema, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), and TV series for streaming platforms. 

I am also an avid rock climber, paraglider and language enthusiast. Originally from Belgium, I have lived in Ireland, Spain, New Zealand, and now reside in Norway.
 

Research interests

I have a special interest in space and how women, queer and racialised people experience and inhabit different spaces, both public and private. While gender, ethnicity, culture, class and relations of power affect our habitation of different everyday places (streets, transports, houses and work places for example), I concur with geographer Doreen Massey to identify these social and cultural relations as in constant transformation.

As film critic, theorist, and educator, I work affirmatively towards accelerating these changes for a diverse and inclusive future. Being affirmative means being critical of the present while avoiding to succumb to a lamentation of the status quo, but instead present alternatives, possible futures. While this stance is not always easy or straightforward, it aims to work at both micro- and macro-levels with the tools we have and those we can create.

Check my monograph Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women: Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema

last article:

The (in)visibility of diversity on streaming platforms in France and Norway: A quantitative and qualitative visual analysis of thumbnails

and last video-essay:

Academic filmmaking and its discontentsIn: In between videographic criticism and visual anthropology