Fabienne Liptay is a professor of film studies at the University of Zurich. Currently, she is directing the research project Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format (2017–2026), which was awarded an excellence grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is also a founding member of the Centre for Arts and Cultural Theory (UZH/ZHdK) and a co-editor of the academic book series “Think Art” (Diaphanes). Together with Dorota Sajewska, she founded the Institute for Performance and Film Expanded, an experimental research laboratory that brings together researchers, artists and curators for non-disciplinary explorations of performance and film. 

 She has published widely on the theory and aesthetics of the moving image, film exhibition and cinema expanded, being particularly interested in the relation between film, literature, visual arts and performance. Her publications include the monograph Telling Images: Studien zur Bildlichkeit des Films (Diaphanes, 2016), as well as the co-edited books Taking Measures: Usages of Formats in Film and Video Art (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2023, in collaboration with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst), and Eco-operations (Diaphanes, 2024, in collaboration with the documenta Institut).  

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