Bio
Hey there! My name is Alexandra Petrus. As a scholar-practitioner, my work moves across issues of labor, class, and violence through filmmaking, game design, and research.
I got my BA in Film and Electronic Arts and German at California State University, Long Beach and my MA in Game Development and Research at the Cologne Game Lab (Technische Hochschule Köln). I’m currently a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at USC School of Cinematic Arts.
For a long time I worked in freelance capacities in various position on set, but pivoted over to post-production and games work in 2017. I worked for 5 years as a motion graphics and animation artist for Sneaky Little Sister, an Oakland-based company working with various progressive non-profit organizations like the ACLU, the Brady Campaign, and PBS.
In 2020, I co-founded Achtung Autobahn Studios, a Germany-based studio specializing in social-realist games. I took part in the development of Berlin Maniacs, an action-adventure game exploring the political turmoil of the student protest movements of the late-1960s in West Berlin. Check out our work here.
I continue to work with experimental digital media forms alongside my scholarship. My developing dissertation is concerned with the ‘cozy game’ movement and the dynamic ways it imagines life beyond our apocalyptic moment.
My full CV can be found here.
You can reach me at alexandra.s.petrus at gmail dotcom.
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