Andi Gilker

Andi Gilker is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Cinema Studies Institute of the University of Toronto. Her dissertation project begins with the encounter between experimental sound, technology, and critical disability studies, where she aims to consider 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 issues, 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 recently established SCMS Disability Caucus and a new 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. Previously, she 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. Her artwork encompasses excavations of trauma, mourning, and other charged subjectivities.

Published Work

• JCMS Teaching Media Dossier, “Disability Justice and Media Pedagogy,” Fall 2025 (forthcoming)
• “(Sounding) Silence.” TMG Journal for Media History, vol. 27, no. 2, Autumn 2024. (forthcoming)
• “Dismediated Bodyminds.” Spotlight feature with pieces by Geneveive Newman and James Deaville for Journal for Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 64, no. 1, Fall 2024.
• “Stephen Lee Naish. Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency” University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 92, no. 3, 2023. Book Review.

Interviews

• Crip Time, Sound Affects, and Film. Video interview for Disability Studies 2025, SAGE Publications, 2025. (Forthcoming)

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 8 mm, 2021 (2:34)
• Ritual (Sick), 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.