Dr Mario Hamad is a Visiting Practitioner teaching on the BA (Hons) Film and Screen Studies at London College of Communication.
at London College of Communication.
His research focuses on the histories, theories and philosophies of militant cinema and activist film, with a particular interest in the audio-visual manifestations of third world liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as contemporary moving image activism from around the world.
Mario is also an independent filmmaker and genocide studies scholar engaged in both a militant and expanded film practice. He is the founder of Wujoud Collective - a gathering of Syrian and Levantine civil society activists involved in the creation of audio-visual interventions as political action against tyranny, disinformation and dehumanisation.
His film-based work has been exhibited, installed and presented at conferences, festivals and art galleries throughout the UK, Europe and the Arab world, including several editions of the BAFTA-qualifying Aesthetica festival, the BAFTA-qualifying London Short Film Festival, the Obskura festival of analogue film in Rennes - France, the Cabriolet film festival in Beirut - Lebanon, the Arab Screen Film Festival in Benghazi - Libya, and the Senese Contemporanea gallery in London’s Mayfair.
Mario is the author of several scholarly studies including his doctoral thesis Wujoud: resistance strategies in the Syrian genocide? (2019), in which he developed the concept of Wujoud as both a praxis and a framework of interpreting resistance in the context of genocide.
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