Johannes Binotto (b. 1977, Switzerland; based in Lucerne and Zurich) is an experimental filmmaker, video essayist and media theorist whose academic practice interrogates perception, spatiality and the uncanny in contemporary image culture. A professor of Film and Media Studies at the Lucerne School of Design and Art and senior lecturer at the University of Zurich, he leads the Swiss National Science Foundation project “VideoEssay. Futures of Audiovisual Research and Teaching,” and publishes on cinema, psychoanalysis, literature and architecture.