About J.F. Martel
Jean-François Martel is a filmmaker, cultural critic and writer on art and philosophy.
As a screenwriter and director, he has worked on numerous television documentary programs in Canada and abroad, many of them focusing on culture and the arts. His filmography also includes a number of short dramatic films. Click here to watch JF's director's reel.
J.F.’s essays have appeared in online journals such as Reality Sandwich, The Finch, and Metapsychosis, as well as in print anthologies from Penguin-Tarcher and North Atlantic Books. He is the author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, published in 2015 by Evolver Editions. Ediciones Atalanta released a Spanish translation of the work in 2017. His long-form essay, “Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things,” is available in e-book format from Untimely Books.
With Prof. Phil Ford of Indiana University Bloomington, J.F. co-hosts the Weird Studies podcast, a series of conversations on the intersections of philosophy, the arts, and the weird.
As a screenwriter and director, he has worked on numerous television documentary programs in Canada and abroad, many of them focusing on culture and the arts. His filmography also includes a number of short dramatic films. Click here to watch JF's director's reel.
J.F.’s essays have appeared in online journals such as Reality Sandwich, The Finch, and Metapsychosis, as well as in print anthologies from Penguin-Tarcher and North Atlantic Books. He is the author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, published in 2015 by Evolver Editions. Ediciones Atalanta released a Spanish translation of the work in 2017. His long-form essay, “Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things,” is available in e-book format from Untimely Books.
With Prof. Phil Ford of Indiana University Bloomington, J.F. co-hosts the Weird Studies podcast, a series of conversations on the intersections of philosophy, the arts, and the weird.