Kelly Egan (she/her) is an associate professor in Cultural Studies and Media Studies at Trent University whose work focuses on materiality and obsolescence, looking beyond hierarchical canonical and linear histories to probe new potentials for dead media.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts (2001) in Mass Communication from Carleton University, Master of Fine Arts (2006) in Film/Video from Bard College (2006), a Certificate in Film Preservation from the Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman Museum (2012), and a Ma (2003) and PhD (2013) in Communication and Culture from the York/Ryerson Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture.




Her award-winning experimental films have exhibited extensively nationally and internationally at festivals/venues including the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Images Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Cinematheque Quebecois, Pacific Cinematheque, TIFF Lightbox, Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, George Eastman Museum, Anthology, Belvedere 21, Smart Museum of Art, Block Museum of Art, Northwest Film Centre, Antimatter Film Festival, PleasureDome, IMA Institut für Medienarchäologie, Foreman Art Gallery, Struts Gallery, Espace Virtuel, Factory Media Centre, Evans Contemporary, amongst others. She has lived and worked in Peterborough, Ontario since 2014.






Films distributed by:
Canyon Cinema (San Francisco)
Light Cone (Paris)