Andi Gilker

Andi Gilker is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Cinema Studies Institute of the University of Toronto. Her dissertation project begins where experimental sound technologies, analyzed through a critical disability studies framework, aid in conceptualizing the expanded temporalities of dysfluency. Her doctoral research also highlights how institutional critique is crucial to disabled and otherwise marginalized practitioners of the experimental avant-garde. Andi’s other research interests include psychedelic cinema, addiction and trauma studies, mental health, and the trajectories of nightlife and underground subcultures.

Andi is neurodivergent and is happy to share resources on neurodiversity in academia. She is currently serving as co-chair for the SCMS Disability Caucus and is a member of the Core Lab of the Center for Global Disability Studies (CGDS). 

Additionally, Andi is a practicing visual artist, amateur filmmaker, and part-time art instructor at the AGO. Currently, she is planning an experimental documentary about the devastating effects/affects of posthumous taxation on the bereaved. She is also working on a series of sculptures with found materials and a radical quilting project. Previously, Andi completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts at Concordia University in Montréal, followed by a summer painting residency at The School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Publications

• “Integrating Resistant Media & Production Pedagogies in the Neoliberal Academy,” in JCMS Teaching Media Dossier, co-edited with Genevieve Newman, vol. 12, no. 5, Fall 2025 (forthcoming)
• “It’s Friday Once Again?! How Lynch’s Sonic Experiments Open Time,” in Panoptikum Journal, Special Issue on The Artistry and Legacy of David Lynch, Winter 2026 (forthcoming)  
• “Understanding Crip Time and Sound,” in Sage Video: SAGE Publications, Ltd., 2025
• “(Sounding) Silence: Dysfluency Mediated Otherwise,” in TMG Journal for Media History, Special Issue on Disability Media Histories, vol. 27, no. 2, Autumn 2024
• “Dismediated Bodyminds,” Spotlight feature with pieces by Genevieve Newman and James Deaville in Journal for Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 64, no. 1, Fall 2024
• “Stephen Lee Naish. Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency” in University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 92, no. 3, 2023 (book review)

Short Experimental Films

• Post-mortem Taxation: An Elegy on Death & Taxes, 16mm, 2025 (forthcoming)
• Exquisite Corpse Project; Super 8mm, 2023 (2:16)
• I Don’t Care if Monday’s Blue, Super 8mm, 2021 (2:34)
• Ritual (Sick), HD Video, 2019 (14:46) 

Other

• “Amidst the Clutter: Fashion in a Profusion of Ephemera,” The Worn Archive, Drawn & Quarterly, 2014, pp. 388-391
• “Sous une aile bienveillante. Andi Gilker: énergique, résiliente, ambitieuse créatrice.” Journal Le Tour, vol. 30, no.1, 2012