Cabello del Moral, Pedro
Office: Hunter North 474
E-mail: pcabellodelmoral@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Phone: TBA
Pedro Cabello del Moral is an international scholar and filmmaker. He has a PhD in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures from the City University of New York, an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University, and an MA in Spanish Film History from King Juan Carlos University.
His research deals with representations of race, sexual dissidences, and disability in Spanish and Latin American contemporary film. Other research interests include cinema of migration, decolonial cinema, and activist documentaries.
He is the author of the book Alianzas antimodernas: Estudios del Cine del Proceso 15M, forthcoming with the Spanish academic press Iberoamericana Vervuert. In this monograph about contemporary non-fiction Spanish cinema, he explores alliances between characters that had been marginalized within colonial modernity.
Pedro has published several articles and book chapters, including “Trans Cinema from Spain,” forthcoming in The Handbook of Trans Cinema, Ed. Douglas Vakoch; “Coming Out Queer-Crip: Alliances in the New Spanish Disability Cinema.” forthcoming in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies JCMS; “Horizons of Radical Care and Crip Relationality in Fernando Franco’s La consagración de la primavera (2022),” forthcoming in Hispania (Special Issue: Disability Studies/Critical Disability Studies); “The Oppositional Gaze in the Argentine Cinema of Migration: Negotiating Chinese Identity and Coloniality of Seeing in Nele Wohlatz’s El futuro perfecto (2016),” in Contemporary Argentine Women Filmmakers, Eds. Mirna Vohnsen and Daniel Mourenza (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023); “Tomar la casa: Politics of haunting, contraarchivo y resistencia indígena en La llorona, de Jayro Bustamante,” in Ítsmica (2022); “El futuro de la juventud de El futuro, de Luis López Carrasco,” in ConSecuencias (2019); and “IXCANUL, una mirada kaqchikel contra el neoliberalismo y el neocolonialismo,” in Itsmo (2019).
As a filmmaker, Pedro has worked in all kinds of film and TV productions in Spain and New York, specializing in non-fiction and transmedia projects. His documentary work tackles the struggles of LGBTQI+ activists, migrant justice collectives, and political prisoners of the Spanish Francoist dictatorship.
In the Film and Media Studies Department at Hunter, he teaches undergraduate courses on Film Introduction, Film History, Latin American Cinema, and Selected Directors, such as Luis Buñuel, Patricio Guzmán, Glauber Rocha, and Sara Gómez.