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Matthias De Groof
Matthias De Groof is a professor in film studies and visual cultures at the University of Antwerp. He is also a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam. After completing his thesis on Eurocentrism in philosophy, he researched African cinema and postcolonial film theory at the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts as a Fulbright scholar; at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies; at the University of Bayreuth’s Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence and at the Waseda University in Tokyo. His works include an edited book on Lumumba in the Arts (Leuven University Press, 2000), which reached a list of the top-100 ‘books to escape the news’ (LitHub) and the films Under the White Mask (2020) and Palimpsest of the Africa Museum (2019). His films have been presented at the Berlinale, IFFR, Doclisboa and at New York Times’s Op Docs Channel.
Contact: University of Antwerp, Sint-Jacobsstraat 2-4, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium.