10/30/2025
Department of Art, Architecture + Art History's Visiting Lecture Series
with support from the Stone Family Lecture Fund and in partnership with the San Diego Asian Film Festival and Pacific Arts Movement presents:
A Lecture by Filmmaker and Writer:
Julian Castronovo
Wednesday, November 12 @ 4:00pm
Warren Auditorium
Mother Rosalie Hall
*APPROVED FOR 1 COMPASS POINT
Julian will discuss his recent creative work including his first feature film, Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued which premiered at the International Film
Festival Rotterdam in 2025.
Julian Castronovo (b. 1998) is a filmmaker and writer living in Los
Angeles. He is interested in the unsteady boundary between fiction
and nonfiction, and he is drawn to research, re-enactment, speculation, and other representational modes which involve a blurring of past, present, and future. His work has appeared in places like the Neuberger Museum of Art, REDCAT, the Chazen Museum of Art and the Wisconsin Film Festival, The San Diego Asian Film Festival, and in publications like The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, and Oxford American. In 2024 he was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. He holds BAs from Brown University’s programs in Literary Arts and Modern Culture & Media, and he received an MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts in 2024.
