Michele Pierson is a Melbourne based film scholar. She taught in the Film Studies Department at King’s College London from 2006 to 2025. Since publishing a book on special effects, her research has focused on experimental film. She is co-editor of Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs (OUP 2011) and author of The Accessibility of the Avant Garde: Views from Experimental Cinema (forthcoming from OUP 2027). Michele has hosted conversations with artists and writers and introduced experimental films at arts venues such as the Barbican, BFI, Eye Filmmuseum, e flux, ICA London, Pompidou Centre, and Whitechapel Gallery.