Thomas Elsaesser is a film historian and theorist living in Amsterdam. He has held professorships at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and the University of Amsterdam. He is a visiting professor at Columbia University, New York. His books include ‘Harun Farocki – Working on the Sight-Lines’ (2005) and ‘German Cinema – Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory since 1945’ (2013).