Interviews
Dec. 02, 2024
The Video Essay Podcast
"On 'Ways of Doing' w/Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen Laird, Dayna McLeod, and Alison Peirse." Interview by Kevin B. Lee.
May 18, 2024
The Video Essay Podcast
"On Doing Women's Global Horror Film History" w/Krista Calvo and Colleen Laird. Interview by Will DiGravio.
June 10, 2022
The Japan Foundation: Toronto, Canada
"Women Directors in Contemporary Japanese Cinema | Dr. Colleen Laird (University of British Columbia)"
Screenings
June 15, 2024
Marienbad Film Festival
Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic
Eye-Camera-Ninagawa
Invited Lectures
(Selected)
June 29, 2023.
Japan Foundation
Tokyo, Japan
New Horizons: Print Scholarship, Videographic Criticism, and Japanese Women Directors.
May 10, 2023
University of Leeds, UK
Ninagawa Mika’s Scopophilic Authorship
March 24, 2023
University of South Carolina, USA
Collaborative Amplification: The Japanese Woman Directors Project
October 30, 2022
University of British Columbia, Canada
Japanese Cinema and the Video Essay
December 2, 2021
Michigan State University, USA
Coding Culture: Japanese Video Games and Japan in Video Games
September 17, 2020
Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Canada
Utsukushiki Ikari: Seeing Red in Ninagawa Mika’s Cinema of Extremes
November 18, 2019
University of Washington, USA
Mind the Gap: Japanese Women Directors and Commercial Cinema
Public Talks (Selected)
March 22, 2023
Pickford Theater in Bellingham, WA, USA
Tanaka Kinuyo’s Equinox Flower
March 11, 2023
Pickford Theater in Bellingham, WA, USA
Tanaka Kinuyo’s Love Under a Crucifix
July 9, 2022
J-Sei
San Francisco, CA, USA
Tanaka Kinuyo and Shimizu Hiroshi’s 1941 film Ornamental Hairpin
March 25, 2021
GlobalEYES film festival
Vancouver, BC, Canada
On Miike Takashi’s Audition
December 10, 2020
Vancouver Public Library, BC, Canada
The Ghost of Kurosawa Akira
February 11, 2020
Pickford Theater in Bellingham, WA, USA
Ozu Yasujirō’s Early Spring
November 7, 2017
Pickford Theater in Bellingham, WA, USA
Kawase Naomi’s An
March 14, 2017
Pickford Theater in Bellingham, WA, USA
Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Creepy