Pal Czirjak

Independent researcher, freelance journalist and photographer. He had been editor-in-chief of Metropolis (Hungarian quarterly of film theory and film history) from 2009 to 2013, and editor since 2005. He is currently Ph.D. student (Film, Media and Cultural Studies, ELTE, Budapest) after graduating in Film Theory and Film History, MA and in Aesthetics, MA at the same university. Between 2007 and 2009 he was an associate researcher for Archive of Studio Béla Balázs. He has been a visiting lecturer at University of Szeged (2008–), and at Budapest University of Technology (2012–). His articles, essays, book reviews and translation have appeared since 2004 in edited volumes, and periodicals.

His research interests include questions and methods of film analysis, Hungarian documentaries, Hungarian cinema in the socialist era, as well as film and architecture.

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