Video Essays
Overview
2022
Cards on the Table: A Tarot-Guided Journey through the Cinema of Nina Menkes
Commissioned by Arbelos Films for limited edition blu-ray Cinematic Sorceress - The Films of Nina Menkes
Commissioned by BFI for In Dreams Are Monsters
Commissioned by Picturehouses to support the release of Happening
2021
Commissioned by BFI to support the release of Balloon
Commissioned for Glasgow Short Film Festival 2021. Premiered as part of the Opening Screening of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2021. Played in Competition (Bande À Part) at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Film Festival.
2020
Part of the Once Upon A Screen project. Published in online journal The Cine-Files. 2020. Second-most mentioned in Sight & Sound's Best Video Essays of 2020. Winner of the inaugural Screen Studies Conference AV Essay Film Award
Commisioned as part of Critics’ Choice VI: On Collectivity at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020.
Premiered there as a response to Janis Rafa's Kala Azar.
2019
The Wonders
Commissioned as part of Creative Europe Desk UK’s virtual conference TRANSFORM.
A horror in the breach: Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day
Commissioned by Sight and Sound.
2018
Commissioned as part of the Critics Choice IV: Sustainable Criticism at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018.
Screened there as introduction to Western (Valeska Greisbach).
Published and peer-reviewed in journal InTransition.
2015 - 2017
Fandor (various commissioned essays)
Highlights
Commissioned for Glasgow Short Film Festival 2021.
Premiered as part of the Opening Screening of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2021.
Played in Competition (Bande À Part) at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Film Festival.
Part of the Once Upon A Screen project.
Published in online journal The Cine-Files. 2020.
Second-most mentioned in Sight & Sound's Best Video Essays of 2020
Winner of the inaugural Screen Studies Conference AV Essay Film Award
Commisioned as part of Critics’ Choice VI: On Collectivity at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020.
Premiered at IFFR as a response to Janis Rafa's Kala Azar.
Featured in Sight & Sound's Best Video Essays of 2020.
Commissioned as part of Creative Europe Desk UK’s virtual conference TRANSFORM. 2019.
Commissioned by Sight and Sound. 2019.
Featured in Sight & Sound's Best Video Essays of 2019.
Commissioned as part of the Critics Choice IV: Sustainable Criticism at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018.
Premired at IFFR as introduction to Valeska Grisebach's Western.
Completed during my Masters degree at the University of Amsterdam. Later published and peer-reviewed in journal InTransition. 2018.
Completed during an Honours course at the University of Glasgow.
Featured in Indiewire, theFilmStage and elsewhere. 2016.
