Ellie Power

Ellie Power is a Doctoral Student in Film Studies at the Aesthetics Unit, Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg. She focuses on the politics and aesthetics of temporalities in contemporary urban films, exploring slowness as an artistic tool to represent urban life and labor. Her work intersects with class representation in cinema, film-philosophy, and visual culture.

• Education:
  • BA (Hons) in Fine Art: Print and Time-based Media, University of the Arts London
  • MA in Literature, Visual Culture and Film Studies (cum laude), Tallinn University / Estonian Academy of Arts
• Research Interests:
  • Temporalities in cinema and urban spaces
  • Slowness as an aesthetic strategy
  • Class representation in film
  • Intersections of film-philosophy and visual culture
• Scientific Awards:
  • Dora Plus Scholarship (for MA studies)
• Teaching:
  • Film History 1950’s until Today
  • Methods in Film Studies
  • Feminist Film Theory, University of Gothenburg