Lectures
Film Studies 
Curation
Film Screenings
Film Studies Mentor: Dr. Fernando-Feliu Moggi
Fetish & Facism examines the historical dialogue between Luchino Visconti’s The Damned (1969) and Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter (1974), exploring sexuality as an integral tool of fascist politics.
Discussing the production history/significance of The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) For Colorado Springs Philharmonic Voices of Light Screening on KCME Jazz.
Mentor: Dr. Robert Von Dassanowsky
Hitchcock and the Leviathan aims to examine World War II’s effect on social contract theory through the lens of Thomas Hobbes new Leviathan as seen in Alfred Hitchcock’s wartime films; The 39 Steps (1935), Saboteur (1936), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Lifeboat (1944), and Notorious (1946).
The German expressionist masterpiece analyzed alongside its complicated history from the doomed marriage of Thea Von Harbou and Fritz Lang, production in the Weimar Republic, to Hitler’s adoration of the film while seeking to answer the question, is Metropolis an endorsement of communism or fascism?
TA Lecture on Goldfinger (1964) - For Intro To Film Narrative University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Dr. Robert Von Dassanowsky.
Film ScreeningsUPCOMING A series honoring the classic cinema of Mexico & its influence on Hollywood aesthetics. Summer 2026 | Eastside Cinema Club & Libros Schmibros Lending Library, LA
Victims of Sin (1951) directed by Emilio Fernández. In the heart of Mexico City, a woman of the night becomes a mother when she discovers a newborn abandoned in a garbage can outside of her paucho pimp’s nightclub.
UPCOMING A series honoring the classic cinema of Mexico & its influence on Hollywood aesthetics. Summer 2026 | Eastside Cinema Club & Libros Schmibros Lending Library, LA
Raquel’s Shoeshiner (1951) directed by Miguel M. Delgado. Described by legend Charlie Chaplin as the best comedian of all time. join Cantinflas in his first color film traveling across Mexico as a shoeshiner turned tutor for an orphan boy.
UPCOMING A series honoring the classic cinema of Mexico & its influence on Hollywood aesthetics. Summer 2026 | Eastside Cinema Club & Libros Schmibros Lending Library, LA
Enamoured (1946) directed by Emilio Fernández. Set during the height of the Mexican Revolution, A tempestuous and passionate love affair ignites when a machismo revolutionary sets his sights on the strong-willed daughter of an aristocrat.