Bart Testa teaches cinema studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Spirit in the Landscape (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1989) and Back and Forth: Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1992), and edited Pier Paolo Pasolini: Contemporary Perspectives (University of Toronto Press, 1994). His writings on Canadian film include a recent essay on Arcand's Decline of the American Empire in Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films (edited by Gene Walz, Rodopi, 2002).