Giovanni Vimercati

Giovanni Vimercati is a film critic and scholar whose work, often under the pseudonym Celluloid Liberation Front, has appeared in Cinema Scope, Film Comment, MUBI Notebook, The Guardian, Safar, Sight and Sound, The Times Literary Supplement, Film Quarterly, The Independent, Variety, The New Statesman, Filmmaker Magazine, Vashti, Reverse Shot, The Brooklyn Rail, The New Arab, Rusted Radishes, and others. He earned a BA in film studies at the London Metropolitan University, received a BA in media studies at the American University of Beirut, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Parallel to his academic career, he has worked in the film industry for almost two decades, in a variety of positions: sales and acquisitions manager, festival correspondent, mentor, curator, critic, and consultant. He is currently working on a book on the political economy of film distribution in midcentury Lebanon (under contract with Bloomsbury). His writing is visible to the naked eye from outer space.