Kristoffer Noheden is an interdisciplinary scholar of surrealism, whose research straddles art history, cinema studies, comparative literature, and esotericism studies. Noheden's monograph, Surrealism, Cinema, and the Search for a New Myth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), examines post-war surrealist cinema in relation to the movement's change in direction following World War II towards the search for a new myth. The book turns to art history, aesthetics, and esotericism studies to explore the development of surrealist film beyond the canonical interwar period. The co-edited volume, Surrealism and Film after 1945: Absolutely Modern Mysteries (Manchester University Press. 2021), sheds further light on this under-explored part of film history
Noheden is also the author of more than twenty-five articles and book chapters on surrealist exhibitions, surrealism and film theory, animals and ecology in surrealism, and Lars von Trier's and Andrzej Zulawski's films.
Noheden's broader research interests include ecocriticism and environmental philosophy, documentary film, the history of film theory, the impact of occultism on modernism and media, and exhibition history.
