Marketa Uhlirova

Marketa Uhlirova is an art historian, curator, and co-founder of the Fashion in Film Festival, where she has served as director since 2006. With an interest in the intersection of fashion, art and moving image, she has curated film programmes for renowned institutions such as Tate Modern, Barbican, and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Uhlirova 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, Uhlirova has produced 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 numerous journals, magazines and exhibition catalogues, including Fashion Theory, Screen, Aperture and Maison Sonia Delaunay. Working with artist-musician Rollo Smallcombe and film archivist Serge Bromberg, Uhlirova has 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.