Maud Ceuterick

I’m a film, TV, and digital media researcher who looks at power relations and dynamics — both in front of the camera and behind it. My work focuses on diversity and inequality on screen, on the production cultures that shape what we see, and on how audiences interact with it: who gets to tell stories, who doesn’t, and how viewers make sense of the media they encounter.

I’m especially preoccupied with how power plays out in public and private spaces, and how inequalities linked to gender, sexuality, and ethnicity affect the way we move through — and are represented in — the world. These questions sit at the heart of my research on cinema, television, and streaming platforms.

Teaching students to look critically at media is one of the things I care about most as an academic — helping them question what they watch rather than simply consume it.

Alongside my written research, I love making video-essays and curating films as ways of thinking and communicating differently. You can explore this side of my work on my Films page, and dive deeper into my written research on my Projects and Publications pages.

Since 2018, I have worked as a researcher and lecturer in film, TV, digital culture, and TV production at the University of Bergen. I regularly curate and present films, moderate panels for films and arts centres in Bergen, and have been curating a monthly series of films made by women at the Cinematheque of Bergen (Kvinneblikk) since January 2025, with a different region of the world in focus every month. I previously worked as content developer for the TV production company Vamos@VerTelevisión in Madrid (Spain), in public relations and on the programming committee for the Love Film Festival of Mons in Belgium, and as freelance translator of French, English and Spanish.