Patricia Pisters is professor of film at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam. She is one of the founding editors of the Open Access journal Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies. Publications include The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory (Stanford University Press, 2003); and  The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture (Stanford University Press, 2012). Her book New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror has appeared with Edinburgh University Press in 2020. As a film-philosopher, she writes about the role of film and media in respect to (collective) consciousness, psychedelics and elemental approaches to media. She is a board member of the Open Foundation for Psychedelic Research and the magazine and platform Extra Extra.