Alex Johnston is a documentarian, media maker, and media scholar. He received his Master’s Degree in Social Documentation from the University of California Santa Cruz, and his Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media, also from UC Santa Cruz. His research and creative work examines the politics and aesthetics of documentary and new media practices, with an emphasis on histories of race, class, and gender. His scholarship has been published in a number of academic and art forums, including World Records, Docalogue, The Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and INCITE Journal of Experimental Media. His films and GIF cycles, including NOW! AGAIN! (2014), Ra*ist President (2016) Evidence of the Evidence (2018), and Dark Cell Harlem Farm (2022) have screened at a wide variety of venues, including the Berlinale, IndieLisboa, Walker Art Center, San Francisco’s Other Cinema, and the Miners' Colfax Medical Center, a convalescent home for retired hard rock and coal miners in Raton, New Mexico. Alex is also an editor and founding member of the radical online media journal NOW! A Journal of Urgent Praxis. (NOW-Journal.com) He teaches filmmaking at Seattle University, where he is Assistant Professor of Film.