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Klossowski, Pasolini, Gurrola: A Genealogy of Late Surrealist Film Theory (EUP, 2026).

“Robarte el arte: Juan José Gurrola, Guerra Fría y neovanguardia mexicana,” in Los setenta mexicanos: una historia intelectual en fragmentos, ed. Luciano Concheiro San Vicente y Ana Sofía Rodríguez Everaert (México: UNAM, 2025). 

The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (Refocus Series, EUP, 2023). 

“Escasez cum valor: de cómo J. J. Gurrola robó la idea del arte contemporáneo” in Colección editorial del Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. México: INBAL, 2023.

Juan José Gurrola. Todo está perdido. México: INBAL, 2023

“Invisible Architecture, Radical Ethnography: Juan Downey and the Sound of Laughter” in Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South, ed. Christopher Ballengee (Lexington Books, 2022).

“Inspiration for a Libidinal Cinema: Klossowski, Lyotard, and the Tableau Vivant,” in Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, vol. 44, no. 2, 2021. ISSN: 0252-8169.

“‘All Consciousness is Something’: Bergson, Deleuze, & Carrel on the Problems of a Scientific Application of Cinema” in Mediascape, Fall 2017. ISSN: 1558478X.

Michael Newell Witte is an art historian, theorist, and translator. His research explores neo-avant-garde art and theory, dissident and ethnographic surrealism, and global contemporary art and film. He is the author of Klossowski, Pasolini, Gurrola: A Genealogy of Late Surrealist Film Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2026) and The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (Refocus Series, Edinburgh University Press, 2023).