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Owen Lyons is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director of the Documentary Media MFA program in the School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.
His educational background includes:
- PhD in Cultural Mediations from Carleton University
- MA in Media and Culture from the University of Amsterdam
- BA Honours in Architecture and Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto
His research focuses on Weimar cinema and culture, film history, media archaeology, and the visual culture of financial markets. He has published a book titled Finance and the World Economy in Weimar Cinema (2023) examining depictions of finance and capital in Weimar-era films, and has written on the fascist economic imaginary in post-Weimar cinema. Recent work explores digital media and generative machine-learning applications for moving image production.
Lyons is also a filmmaker and musician currently producing a feature-length documentary about his family's history during the troubles in Ireland and their connections to 1950s-60s media events.
