Colm McAuliffe is a writer and curator from Co. Cork. He collaborates with artists and filmmakers, creating films, exhibitions, live performances, as well as writing fiction and non-fiction. He worked on the award winning Make Film History project which opened up the archives from the BBC, BFI, Irish Film Archive, and Northern Ireland Screen for creative reuse by emerging filmmakers and artists, producing over 100 films. He has also produced experimental films with composers Mica Levi and Stephen Mallinder, and lectured at Yale University, Birkbeck Colllege, Goldsmiths, and the Guildhall School of Music.
A revelation! McAuliffe shows how, from the late 1950s to the 1980s, the BFI Education Department was an agent of popular modernism, a para-academic experiment, an engine of critical thinking about the possibilities of cinema. In dusty basements, coffee houses, summer schools: all change. -- Sukhdev Sandhu, Director of the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture, New York University, USA