David H. Fleming is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the University of Stirling. His research straddles theoretical and practical aspects of film philosophy, and gravitates around the intersectionalities of Screens, Thinking, and Worlds—the name of the Edinburgh University Press book series he is co-founding editor of. He is the co-author, with William Brown, of Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream: Posthumanism and Racial Capital in Contemporary Streaming Media (2025) and The Squid Cinema From Hell (2020). He authored Chinese Urban Shi-nema (2020) with Simon Harrison and is the author of Cinematically Rendering Confucius: Chinese Film Philosophy and the Efficacious Screen-Play (2025) and Unbecoming Cinema (2017). His ‘fractalacitc’ essay films Waking/Examined-After/Lives (2026), Danse Macabre (2025), and Hiber-nation (2024) are currently open access via the [In]Transition and Screenworks journals. His residency at the FILM AND DEATH project is carried out with the support of Royal Society of Edinburgh.