Dr. Ohad Landesman is a film scholar who specializes in documentaries, cinema in the digital age and animation. He is a lecturer in film studies at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. He holds a PhD from the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. His dissertation focused on the aesthetic implications of digital technology on the documentary tradition, with a specific emphasis put on doc-fiction hybrids, essay films and animated documentaries. His writing has appeared in several academic journals such as Studies in Documentary Film, Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, and Visual Anthropology Review. He is currently working on a monograph focused on documentary visits to Israel in the 1960s and 1970s, and is co-editing an anthology on selected essays in documentary cinema, to be published in 2021 by Am Oved.
