Film research students

Get to know our Film students and gain an insight into their research.

Students are listed alphabetically under their respective degrees.

MA in Film

Lilian Goodliffe

ExtraFemmestrial: An Examination of the Cinematic Female Alien

Supervisors: Missy Molloy

Niamh Prendergast

She Came From the Water: Posthuman Aquatic Feminism in Contemporary Transnational Cinema

Supervisors: Missy Molloy and Bonnie Etherington

PhD in Film

Tom Boniface-Webb

Public Film Funding and Emerging Filmmakers in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, 1973-2023

Supervisors: Alfio Leotta and Missy Molloy

Gwen Isaac

Authorial voice and the mother-subject: First-person documentary practice towards feminist-identity formation

Supervisors: Paul Wolffram, Thierry Jutel and Missy Molloy

Tristan Keillor

Dreamlike Embodiment in Film and VR

Supervisors: Tim Groves and Thierry Jutel

Vaughan Slinn

Hauntology as Creative Praxis

Supervisors: Tim Groves and Sarah Thomasson

Tyler Tesolin

Pounding Pound: Translation and the Cinematic Qualities of Ezra Pound’s Cantos

Supervisors: Alfio Leotta, Thierry Jutel and Marco Sonzogni

Joyce Wang

Reimagining Home, Identity, and Gender in 21st Century Asian Women’s Diasporic Cinema

Supervisors: Missy Molloy and Alfio Leotta

Lawrence Wang

Representing Chinese Indonesians Through Documentary Film Practice: Politics,  Trauma, Memory, Violence

Supervisors: Paul Wolffram and Thierry Jutel

Yucy Wang

Documentary Media and Medical Humanities: An Audio-Visual Examination of Primary-level Medical Injustice in China

Supervisors: Paul Wolffram and Thierry Jutel