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 has published widely on the theory and aesthetics of the moving image, film exhibition, time-based artistic practice, and expanded cinema. Her publications include the monograph Telling Images: Studien zur Bildlichkeit des Films (diaphanes, 2016), as well as the co-edited volumes 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) with Liliana Gómez in collaboration with the documenta Institut. Together with Dorota Sajewska and a group of researchers, artists, and curators, Fabienne Liptay founded the Institute for Performance and Film Expanded (www.ipf-expanded.com)—a platform for the transformative power of nondisciplinary thinking and art.