Young Critics Workshop 2018

I graduated with a degree in Film and work as a freelance writer. I also dabble in various production jobs in film. In the past I worked as a video editor and production design assistant. Outside of film, I’m into yoga, fresh memes, and watching too much Youtube.

In film school, I’ve had the opportunity to watch a gamut of films from different genres. It was there I realized that I like writing about film almost as much or more than I liked making them. Previously, I was also a finalist for The Far East Film Festival Campus program for young film journalists. It was a great experience and my first time ever in Europe.

My name is Patrick Preziosi, I am 21 years old, and I’m from Brooklyn, New York. I am currently in my senior year at SUNY Purchase, where I study literature with a minor in French language. I’ve been an avid fan of film all my life, but within the past few years, I’ve begun to pursue writing more professionally, contributing both film and music criticism to Irish Film Critic, Toy Records, and the Purchase Phoenix. Aside from writing criticism, I write short fiction as well, and am also a musician.

I’m a fearless academic by heart, upgraded from a Philosophy B.A. to Film Studies at University College London. My reading and writing interests intertwine philosophy as phenomenology and political studies, to reflect on film’s significance as a historical and cultural epiphenomenon. Aesthetics and metaphysics of cinema summarize my research fields and I’m still unlearning to intellectualize films. As a film critic driven by spectatorship studies, I do not discriminate ‘high’ from ‘low’, and my analysis is always issue-driven. I do believe film is the highest art and I do my best to serve at its altar.

I’m twenty three years old and hail from a little county in the northwest of Ireland called Sligo. I am a graduate from University College Dublin where I studied literature and film and have just recently completed an MA in film at Queen’s University Belfast. Outside of academia, I have written criticism for various small university-bound publications and have programmed for the Sligo Film Society. I’ve also made a couple of short films and hope to make a few more.

I’m a 22 year old cinephile and sporadic writer/journalist. I’m currently both finishing my masters in Theatre and Film Studies and starting a masters in Culture Management. I’m a sucker for musicals and anything featuring deadpan humor. I love almost anything that floats between minimalism and trashy baroque, as long as it (re)uses the cinematic medium in an interesting and refreshing way.