About

Dreamtiger films is the work of John Lynch.  He writes about film, TV series, philosophy, and the possibilities for thinking. He lives in Stockholm.

Having studied Art History and English, an MA in the Social History of Art, and a PhD in Visual Culture, he taught at several UK universities including the University of Birmingham where he was Director of Studies for the Media, Culture and Society programme from 2004 to 2010. Since 2015 he is Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden where he is Programme leader in the MA Geomedia Studies.

Since 2010 he has also turned to filmmaking and has written and directed a series of short films, as well as working with other directors and artists. His film Kami was selected for the 2012 Leeds International Film Festival.

He has written three books Picturing an Epidemic: Representations of HIV/AIDS in British Media Culture, After Bloody Sunday: Representation, Ethics, Justice (co-author); Between Habit and Thought in New TV Serial Drama:Serial Connections, co-edited two volumes: Critical Kitaj: Essays on the Work of R.B. Kitaj; The Leaving of Ireland: Literature, Migration and Belonging, and numerous articles as well as having presented papers at many international conferences.

He has a number of film and TV series scripts in development.

(Apologies to Rimbaud) It begins as an investigation. I turn silences and shadows into images. What is imperceptible I try and capture. I make the whirling world slow down.