Laura Ivins a practitioner-scholar whose research, criticism, and filmmaking explore materiality in experimental cinema, assemblage, and stop motion animation. Her films utilize a mixture of found footage, home moves, and animation to explore themes of home and family identity. They have screened internationally at festivals like Revolutions Per Minute Festival, Oaxaca FilmFest, and the United States Super 8 + Digital Video Festival. In her research, Ivins most frequently writes about handmade cinema, which includes both experimental films and stop motion animation, and her articles have appeared in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and The Journal of Popular Culture.
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