Nace Zavrl is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, working on nonfiction filmmaking, globalization, and historiography. Before arriving at Harvard, Nace studied at King’s College London and at Goldsmiths, University of London. Nace has written on film and experimental media for Afterimage, Senses of Cinema, the Moving Image Review and Art Journal, and NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies. Among other venues, he is a contributor to Radio Študent, KINO!, and Ekran in Slovenia, where he also works as a critic and curator.
In 2017, Nace was the recipient of the Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship. More recently, he is the editor of The Resistance-Image: Militant Documentary on the Battlefields of May ’68, published by the Slovenian Cinematheque. Since 2018, Nace has served as a programmer at the annual Festival of Slovenian Film; in 2023, he is an instructor at the Academy of Visual Arts in Ljubljana. While in the Ph.D. program, his research on film and politics in Eastern Europe has received support from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Committee on General Scholarships, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. At the moment, Nace is at work on a dissertation titled Just Images: Committed Documentary after Yugoslavia.