Erin Espelie is a filmmaker, writer and editor with degrees in molecular and cellular biology from Cornell University and the experimental and documentary arts from Duke University. She taught courses in environmental studies and the documentary arts at Duke’s Centre for Documentary Studies, the Nicholas School of the Environment, the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image. Espelie currently has a joint appointment at the University of Colorado Boulder in Cinema Studies and Critical Media Practices, where she co-founded NEST Studio for the Arts (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology). She has also served as an editor in chief and a columnist at the Natural History magazine. Her writing and filmmaking investigate current scientific research related to the Anthropocene, [1] issues in environmental history, questions of epistemology and our expectations of the moving image. Her feature-length experimental documentary, The Lanthanide Series (2014), examines the materiality of the digital world, combining approaches of non-fiction narrative essay, abstract visual and sound exploration, and the history of black mirrors. She has screened her films around the world including New York Film Festival, London Film Festival, Whitechapel Gallery, International Film Festival Rotterdam, CPH:DOX and more.
