Adam Cook is a movie critic, curator, and scholar.

A PhD Candidate in Queen’s University’s Screen Cultures & Curatorial Studies program, his SSHRC-funded research concerns the aesthetic evaluation of movies. Through a series of close readings, Cook’s dissertation considers the construction of cinematic point-of-view as part of formal rhetoric. As a Teaching Fellow, he has designed and delivered several courses in the Film & Media department. Cook also teaches “The History of the Cinema” at George Brown College and has been invited as a Guest Lecturer at Queen’s and York University. Outside of academia, he has designed and led several workshops on film appreciation and criticism. Previously, Cook completed his SSHRC-funded MA at York University on heightened embodiment in the films of Tsai Ming-liang.

His criticism has been published in, among other outlets, Cinema Scope, [in]Transition, Cineaste, Offscreen, MUBI, Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, Film Comment, The New York Times, and The Globe and Mail. Currently devoted to his scholarly pursuits, Cook still occasionally publishes new work on Substack at Long Voyage Home.

Working in film festival programming, he has held positions at TIFF, VIFF, Hot Docs, SWIFF, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, and Victoria Film Festival. Cook has curated programmes for Doclisboa, TIFF Cinematheque, Northwest Film Forum, Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, and Vancity Theatre. As a member of the programming collective K-Fab, Cook co-curated and presented various screenings and retrospectives at Paradise Theatre in Toronto between 2021 and 2023. He held the title of Content Manager at MUBI between 2010 and 2015. Cook has served on Cinema Politica’s Screening Committee since 2022.

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