James Leo Cahill is Director of the Cinema Studies Institute and Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and French at the University of Toronto. He is author of Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé (2019) and general editor of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.

Luca Caminati is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of Orientalismo eretico. Pier Paolo Pasolini e il cinema del Terzo Mondo (2007), Il cinema come happening: Pasolini's Primitivism and the Sixties Italian Art Scene (2010), and Roberto Rossellini documentarista. Una cultura della realtà (2012), along with many articles and book chapters on Italian cinema and media. He is currently serving as associate editor for the journal Italica.

1. Cinema of Exploration: An Adventurous Film Practice and Theory; Part I: Explorations in Perception ; 2. Chasing Bugs: Microbial Frontiers in American Epidemiological Documentaries, 1946-60;3. Through the Body with Laser Gun and Camera: Fantastic Voyage and the Cinema of Exploration; 4. Outer and Inner Space: Psychedelia and Selected Representations of Altered Consciousness in Experimental [...] Loops: Climate Change, Drone Cinema, and the Work of Mourning; Part II: Cinema of Expedition; 6. Chance Wrote the Screenplay, Reality Directed the Film: The Exploration Films of Hans Hass; 7. Environmental Aesthetics: Tracing a Latent Image from Early Safari Films to Contemporary Art Cinema; 8. Travelling the World with a Smile: James Fitzpatrick's Traveltalks;9. Aquariums, Diving Equipment, and the Undersea Films of John Ernest Williamson;10. Sounding Travel Documentary in Wartime China: The Dual Journey of Long Live the Nation; Part III: Narratives of Exploration; 11. Exploring Marker's Cuba: Shivers and Rhythms; 12. Like a Mobile, Living Archive: Antonioni the Traveler;13. Adventure Cinema in the Age of Austerity: The case of Miguel Gomes' Arabian Nights (2015) Trilogy;14. Amazon Cinema: Vegetal Storytelling; Part IV. Cinema of Exploitation; 15. Mondo Exotica: Ethnography, Eros, and Exploitation in Italian Cinema of the 1960s and [...] Pierre Perrault to Rolf De Heer: Auteur Cinema and the Poetic Exploration of Indigenous Lands and Identities; 17. Prospecting: Cinema and the Exploration of Extraction; Coda: 18. Speculations on Film/theory and the Trope of Exploration"