Philipp Dominik Keidl is Assistant Professor of Screen Media in Transition in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. He holds a PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University in Montreal and an MA in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image from the University of Amsterdam. 

His current research examines the distribution and exhibition of queer films in Germany from the 1960s to the present. It focuses in particular on the work and activism of Manfred Salzgeber and his film distribution company, Edition Salzgeber, during the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s.