Gregory Black

Gregory Black
E-mail
gregory.black@salle.url.edu
Building
IOTICAT
Address
C. Quatre Camins 30, 08022, Barcelona
Floor
IOT
Section
Animation
Department of Engineering
Position
Professor

Lecturer in Audio-Visual Screenplay, Audio-Visual Language and Narrative Theory, and Culture of Animation & VFX on the Animation and VFX undergraduate degree at La Salle University. He has a long-standing engagement with cinema and has actively participated in both its practical and theoretical aspects. He received formal training across filmmaking disciplines, including directing, editing, sound recording, and scriptwriting, and holds a Master’s degree in Film and Television Fiction: Production, Screenplay, and Direction from Blanquerna, University Ramon Llull.

Academic Training

  • Master’s Degree in Film and Television Fiction: Production, Screenplay, and Direction, Blanquerna, University Ramon Llull, 2018–2019
  • BA (Hons) History and Sociology, University of Wales, Swansea, 1997–2000

Teaching Activity
La Salle University | Lecturer, Animation & VFX, 2016–Present

  • Culture of Animation and VFX
  • Audio-Visual Language and Narrative Theory
  • Audio-Visual Screenplay
  • Project Consultant

Research Activity
Currently pursuing a PhD titled Animating Conflicts, exploring animation history and contemporary cultural phenomena. His research examines how 21st-century transnational animated features depict socio-political conflicts, and how animation uniquely empowers diasporic directors to tell large-scale narratives on modest budgets, while addressing micro-histories, trauma, and memory.