Johannes Binotto, *1977, is researcher and senior lecturer in cultural and media studies, regular contributor to the film magazine Filmbulletin, and on the editorial board of RISS. Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse. He teaches film theory and history at the Lucerne School of Art and Design and English and American literature and culture as senior lecturer at the English Department of the University of Zurich. He has written his PhD on the psychoanalytic uncanny as space in arts, literature and film. His two current research projects are a study on film technology and the unconscious, and a project on video essays in academic research and teaching.