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 considers, through aesthetic evaluation, the formal system of the cinematic viewpoint as a rhetorical structure, engaging in close readings of a selection of disparate works by Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Abbas Kiarostami, Kelly Reichardt, and Frederick Wiseman.

As a Teaching Fellow, he has designed and taught several courses in the Film & Media department, including “Film History and Theory Before 1960”; “Hollywood: The Dream Factory”, and “The Experimental Tradition”. 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 on a variety of topics including film curation, videographic criticism, and phenomenology. 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, Vancity Theatre, and most recently co-curated the series “The Wonderful World of Technicolor” at The Screening Room in Kingston. 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 served on Cinema Politica’s Screening Committee between 2022 and 2025.

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