Hugo Ljungbäck

Hugo Ljungbäck (he/they) is a Swedish artist, curator, and scholar. His research focuses on the intersections of queer art, experimental film and video, media archaeology, and archival studies, and examines the materiality of the moving image and its processes of mediation. His award-winning videos interrogate queer history, representation, identity, and sexuality through an autobiographical lens, and have screened at film festivals, galleries, and museums internationally. He is a PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago and holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is Co-chair of the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ Small Gauge and Amateur Film Committee.