Aimée Mitchell is a doctoral candidate in the York-Ryerson Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. Her current research involves Canadian amateur cinema, cultural historiography and film preservation. She has been involved with the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre’s Preservation Committee since 2007, and acted as the Centre’s in-house film archivist in the summer of 2008. She wrote an MA thesis at York on the work of filmmaker Chris Marker, which examined the migratory nature of the modern-day traveler. Aimée is also currently involved in a collaborative project between Concordia and York University that is researching the multi-screen films of Canada's Expo '67. She has been the Special Projects Coordinator for the Visible City Project + Archive (http://www.visiblecityproject.ca) since 2005. Her research interests span from home-movie travel films, found footage and experimental documentaries, to memory and its relationship to public space.
Aimée Mitchell
Aimée Mitchell is a doctoral candidate in the York-Ryerson Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. Her current research involves Canadian amateur cinema, cultural historiography and film preservation. She has been involved with the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre’s Preservation Committee since 2007, and acted as the Centre’s in-house film archivist in the summer of 2008. She wrote an MA thesis at York on the work of filmmaker Chris Marker, which examined the migratory nature of the modern-day traveler. Aimée is also currently involved in a collaborative project between Concordia and York University that is researching the multi-screen films of Canada's Expo '67. She has been the Special Projects Coordinator for the Visible City Project + Archive (http://www.visiblecityproject.ca) since 2005. Her research interests span from home-movie travel films, found footage and experimental documentaries, to memory and its relationship to public space.
