FÈLIX MAISEL LICERÁN

Fèlix Maisel Licerán holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from Pompeu Fabra University and has completed the International Master in Film and Audiovisual Studies (IMACS) at both the University of St Andrews and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. He is currently a PhD student at the Department of Communication at UPF, where he is writing his doctoral thesis on the desert as a transnational space in classic and contemporary Arab cinemas, focusing on three key perspectives: colonialism, borders and spirituality. His research has explored the works of Nacer Khemir through the concept of the “imaginal,” that is, understanding imagination in terms of the objective world. His academic interests also include glitch aesthetics, particularly the tension between a figurative presentation of reality and its figural destruction; as well as the visual culture associated with nuclear weapons. Additionally, he collaborates with the CINEMA research group within the framework of the project "Mutations of visual motifs in the public sphere" (MUMOVEP).

Research lines:

- Arab cinemas

- Spiritual and symbolic hermeneutics in cinema

- Glitch studies

- Representations of nuclear weapons

- Comparative cinema