Ernest Mathijs is a Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). He splits his time between Vancouver (UBC) and Brussels (at the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS)). He has written on the reception of digital cinema and fantasy (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings), on Belgian cinema, The Room, and on the activism and acting of Delphine Seyrig. He has also published 100 Cult Films, Cult Cinema, The Cult Film Reader, and Alternative Europe, amongst others. He is the author of monographs on David Cronenberg and Ginger Snaps. He is the co-writer of the two-part documentary The Quiet Revolution (2019), on Canadian genre film since the 1970s. His most recent books are The Screen Censorship Companion (2024) and The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema (co-edited with Jamie Sexton) (2020). He is obsessed with the question: how long is a moment?