Alice Giuliani graduated with a BA in Humanities from the Università degli Studi di Pavia (Italy) and holds an MSc in Film studies from the University of Edinburgh. She is currently a PhD student at the University of West London. Her research project, provisionally titled Picturing the Future: Weird Cinematic Fiction and the Posthuman, is broadly concerned with critical posthumanism, aesthetics of digital cinema and special effects, post-cinema, and speculative fiction cinema. She has also worked as a freelance video editor in academic settings and for independent narrative short films, and is currently shifting her practice towards more experimental work.