Gabriel Menotti is a lecturer in Multimedia at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (Brazil). He works as an independent curator engaged with different forms of cinema. Menotti is the author of Através da Sala Escura (Intermeios, 2012), a history of movie theatres from the perspective of audiovisual performances, and co-editor of Besides the Screen: Moving Images Through Distribution, Promotion and Curation (Palgrave, 2015, with Virginia Crisp).