Marketa Uhlirova

Marketa Uhlirova is the Director of the Fashion in Film Festival, which she co-founded in 2005 with Roger K. Burton and Christel Tsilibaris. She is also an art historian, curator, and writer focusing on how fashion, art and moving image intersect and shape one another. She has curated film programmes for leading arts and cinema venues internationally, including Tate Modern, Barbican, Palazzo Grassi, BFI and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Marketa currently holds the position of Reader in Fashion, Cinema and Visual Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where she continues to explore the representation and mediation of fashion in visual culture.

As an editor and writer, Marketa has published books including If Looks Could Kill: Cinema's Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence (2008) and the award-winning Birds of Paradise: Costume as Cinematic Spectacle (2013). Her writing has appeared in journals, magazines and exhibition catalogues, including Fashion Theory, Screen, Aperture, Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, Maison Sonia Delaunay and AnOther. Working with artist-musician Rollo Smallcombe and film archivist Serge Bromberg, Marketa also conceived and co-created the film experience The Inferno Unseen (2017), a reimagined version of Henri-Georges Clouzot's unfinished 1964 film, which has gained international recognition.