Resume

MICHAELA TORK

michaelatork@hotmail.com

michaela@rethinkcinema.com

Education

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Doctor of Philosophy in Film and Television Studies, 2001

Dissertation title: "The Shadow of the Object: Mourning and Melancholia in Autobiographical Film and Video about the Holocaust."

My dissertation is a psychoanalytic study of narrative figurations of bereavement in which textual traces of intense yearnings for a vanished people, their world and traditions bear testimony to the immense losses the Holocaust has inflicted on victims, their children and generations to come.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Master of Arts in Film and Television Studies, 1994

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television, 1992 summa cum laude

LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE

Certificate in Film Production, 1988

Film/Video/Digital Media Production Experience

designed and implemented interactive content for the internet: laid out the structure of websites with flowcharts and conceptualized appropriate interfaces so as to motivate user interaction. Embedded sound and video as well as interactive animations.
created Quicktime movies on Personal Computers working with software programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, SoundEdit 16 and Macromedia Director and Flash.
wrote, directed and edited several short films and videos.

What If?: experimental video
Elysium: 16 mm sync sound film
Eden: non-sync sound film
Carla - A Portrait of a Filmmaker: video documentary
Torment: 16mm silent film

assisted on numerous other student films in script supervision, editing and sound editing

Additional Work Experience

teaching assistant at UCLA: led undergraduate seminars in European and American Film History
foreign language instructor: taught individuals and groups German and English as a second language
free-lance translator: translated scholarly articles, business, legal and technical materials from German to English as well as from English to German

Honors and Awards

Jacob Javits Fellowship, U.S. Dept. of Education 1992-96
Georgia Frontiere Scholarship 1991 and 1992