Brenda Hollweg

Brenda Hollweg is Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. She has worked on a major research collaboration, on the aesthetic and affective dimensions of democratic participation: The Road to Voting, and has published on contemporary documentary and the video essay. She is currently co-editing World Cinema and the Essay Film: Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice (EUP, 2019).

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 30, 2018<October 30, 2018

Bad essays don’t think: reflections on a (still) heretic form of the cinematic city

Drawing on Adorno's account of the "bad essay", Brenda Hollweg defends the essay film's capacity for politico-aesthetic intervention.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 17, 2018<October 17, 2018

The Fiction of Beirut: Reframing Labour Migration in Ziad Kalthoum’s Taste of Cement

Brenda Hollweg shows how Taste of Cement, part of the recent global growth of the essay film, explores Beirut through the perspective of its migrant workforce, unearthing the city's history and role in regional conflicts, as well as flows of labor.