The UPF Centre for Animal Ethics will host Michał Matuszewski from February to June 2024.

Michał is a PhD researcher at the Doctoral School in Humanities, University of Warsaw, Poland, in the field of cultural studies and critical “film animal studies”.He is working on a dissertation entitled "Bloodless hunting? Polish Nature Film 1945-2005" on a cultural history of polish wildlife films and discourses on nature and animals.  

Michał is also a film curator, festival programmer, researcher, author, and film essayist. Head of a Film Essay Studio at the vnLab of the im Łodź Film School. He is a scholarship holder of the Culture and Animals and Animals Foundation and works on the film project based on visual research on the animal gaze in cinema. His recent film essay project "Re-membering Topsy" was presented at the National Museum of Warsaw. He is a co-leader of the Film Animal Studies Workgroup at NECS - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies.