Florian Krautkrämer is a professor at the Lucerne School of Design & Art, where he teaches film and media studies. He was the head of the SNSF research project "Interactive Documentary Film" (2021-2024) and is co-leader of the DFG-network “camera studies.” His research focuses on the transformation of amateur media and cameras in the context of digitalization. Together with Winfried Gerling, he edited the book Versatile Camcorders. Looking at the GoPro Movement (Berlin 2021). In 2018, he represented the Chair of Film Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz for two semesters. In 2018 published the book Aufschub. Das Lager Westerburg und der Film von Rudolf Breslauer / Harun Farocki (Berlin). Other research interests include experimental film, production and industry studies, film funding, sustainability and film, and zombie films. Recent publications include "Mobilizing the Undead: Zombie Films and the Discourse of Otherness from the 1930s to Post-Millenial Cinema“ in Atlantic Studies 20:1 (2023) and "Sustainable Film Production“ TAKE 11 (2020), p34-41. Florian received his Ph.D. in 2011 with a dissertation on writing in film, published by LIT in 2013, and worked as a research assistant at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig from 2005 to 2008. He is also a filmmaker, his experimental documentary films were presented at festivals around the world.