Broderick Fox is a media practitioner and scholar whose creative work, teaching, and scholarship engage media production, documentary studies, media aesthetics, and the potential for digital media technologies to expand voice and advance social change.
His award-winning documentaries, including recent titles Manscaping, Zen & the Art of Dying, and The Skin I'm In foreground queer bodies, identities, and stories, including his own. Fox's book Documentary Media: History, Theory, Practice (Routledge) is now in its second edition. Fox works as a film and video editor, and his critical writing has appeared in various anthologies and journals, including Film Quarterly and Spectator. He’s also an award-winning screenwriter, including two recent wins of the University Film and Video Association’s Feature Screenplay Competition.
In 2023, Occidental awarded Fox an endowed professorship, naming him the James Irvine Professor of Media Arts & Culture. Recently, Fox was awarded a Fall 2024 Research Residency at the Bogliasco Foundation in Bogliasco, Italy where he advanced postproduction on his latest community-engaged media project Through Flood and Fire, which fosters and models routes for intergenerational dialogue in the LGBTQ+ community.
Read a recent profile of Fox in Occidental Magazine.
Photo Credit: Laura Bianchi, Bogliasco Foundation