Hugo Ljungbäck

Hugo Ljungbäck is a filmmaker, archivist, and media scholar. His work focuses on queer cinema, experimental film and video, media archaeology, and archival practice, and his essays have appeared in Found Footage Magazine, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Cinema & Cie, and Media, War & Conflict, as well as in The Archivability of Television. He is also co-editor of a special issue of Synoptique on media-archival pedagogy. His award-winning films and videos interrogate queer history, representation, identity, and sexuality through an autobiographical lens and have screened at film festivals, art galleries, and museums internationally. He is currently a PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, and holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BFA in Film from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.