Cinepoetics – Center for Advanced Film Studies

Robert Sinnerbrink

Robert Sinnerbrink is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney. He was chair of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP), member of the Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics as well as the International Association for Philosophy and Literature. He received the ARC Future Fellowship with the project "Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film" (2014–2017).

Sinnerbrink is interested in cinematic ethics, aesthetics, film philosophy, phenomenology, and critical theory. Among his book publications are New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking (2022, 2nd edition), Terrence Malick: Filmmaker and Philosopher (2019) and Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film (2016).

For the Center for Advanced Film Studies Cinepoetics, the exchange with leading scholars from all over the world is of profound importance.

The fellow program is designed to support academics in their research on audio-visual images and enables them to bring their experience and expertise into the center in order to engage in critical dialogue.

The program is flexible in that it facilitates short-term collaborations as well as longer, project-oriented stays. In addition to inviting exceptional scholars (Senior Fellows) working in the field of research, project-specific calls for proposals explicitly address young academics (Research Fellows and Junior Fellows).

Furthermore, within the framework of selected project foci, the presence of Artists in Residence allows for productive debates with filmmakers and professional artists.