Rachel Pittman is broadly interested in aesthetics and politics, cultural studies, media and place, and histories of experimental and avant-garde cinemas. More specifically, she researches Appalachian cinema and punk moving image and visual culture. She holds an M.A. in Film Studies from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She is also interested in curation and cinephilic community-building across the American South and Appalachia.

Francesca C. DiBona is a Cinema and Media Studies Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California. Her work focuses on fugitive approaches to archival decay/preservation, film, and the future. Fascinated by the degrading and reconstructed body as it relates to the life cycle of film, her work is tactilely informed by her archival experiences with the Vulnerable Media Lab at Queen’s University, and the HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive at USC.