Suzanne Barnard is a filmmaker, an Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, and a licensed clinical psychologist.
Maxamba, the 2015 film she codirected and coproduced with Sofia Borges, has screened in numerous international festivals and won several awards, including “Best Film” in the category “New Directors/Novíssimos” at IndieLisboa. Her recent film, The 28th Lark, was included in the RE:NEW Festival of International Art and screened at Percolate Gallery in Pittsburgh. Her film work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Heinz Foundation, Binaural Media, the Women and Girls Foundation, and Duquesne University.
She received her Ph. D. in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University of Chicago, and completed postdoctoral studies at Georgetown University. She is coeditor, with Bruce Fink, of Reading Seminar XX: Lacan’s Major Work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuality, and has published widely on Lacanian, French feminist, and Foucauldian approaches to the body and subjectivity. She also writes in film theory (focused on Deleuzean approaches to cinema, affect and subjectivity), and has presented on the film work of Pedro Costa, Ben Russell, and John Akomfrah. Her research engages psychology, philosophy, film, and ethnography, and she has taught courses on Deleuze and collaborative aesthetics, on psychology, migration and “slow cinema,” and on the posthuman in science fiction film. She received a grant from Duquesne’s Center for African Studies to create a course on global identities and African cinema, in tandem with which she curated an African Film Series in Spring 2015. She has been a video consultant for The REP Professional Theatre Company (Pittsburgh).
Filmography:
2015 “Maxamba” 25’ DCP; color; Portugal-USA. (Codirected and coproduced with Sofia Borges)
2017 “The 28th Lark ” 10´; HD; sound, color; Portugal/USA.
