CV
Education
2018 PhD, Department of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London / UK
2007 MA, Screen Documentary, Department of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London / UK
Current activities
2022 – ongoing Editor, Journal of Visual Culture (Sage)
Work experience
2021 – 2024 Principal Investigator, Revolutionary Patience: Migrant Perspectives on Doing Politics with the Documentary
supported by Kone Foundation
Aug 2019 – Aug 2020 Postdoctoral Researcher in the Arts, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS), University of Helsinki
Jan 2011 – Aug 2019 Artistic Director and Producer, Sheffield Fringe [artists’ moving image festival]
Sept 2004 – Aug 2012 Lecturer (part-time), University of West London, South Bank University, Goldsmiths, University of London, New City College
Publications
- Keren Cytter and the Heimatfilm: Through the Lens of Geographical and Cultural Displacement, in Travellers, Wanderers, Nomads and Visitors: Thinking German Film History from the Margins, eds. Ebbrecht-Hartmann, T., Sandberg, C., Berghahn Books (forthcoming)
- The Empathic Resonance of Village of Women: On Cinematic Expansion through Retreat, in History, Practice and Pedagogy: Empathic Engagements in the Visual Arts, eds. Barahal, S., Pugliano, E., Palgrave Macmillan, pp 249-265 (2024)
- On Discomfort and Empathy in Rosalind Nashashibi’s Electrical Gaza, in Focus Issue 11: Representing Women’s Realities, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture Journal (2023)
- NOT ANOTHER MOMENT OF YOUR SALVATION: Documentary, Art Practice and their Empathic Misadventures, in Constructions of the Real, Baulch, L.; Burke, L.; Gough-Brady, C.; Munro, K.; Rogers, C., Bristol: Intellect Books, pp 258-268 (2023)
- Confessions of a Documentary Junkie: 2022 Love & Anarchy Festival Picks, No Niin Magazine (2022)
- Village of Women: Tamara Stepanyan and Minou Norouzi in conversation, Finnish Documentary Guild (Dokumenttikilta) and Moving People and Images Journal (2022)
- Relearning Forgotten Practices of Communication: On Empathy and Sky Hopinka, Non-Fiction journal, Issue 2, pp 36-41 (2020)
- Touch, e-flux journal online Reader (2020)
- On Ferry Crossings, in In Between, eds. Savallampi, M; Mehta, A., HIAP publication, pp 64-75 (2020)
- THE COMMUNICATIVE POWER OF SILENCE: Why Are You Angry?, Another Gaze 03, pp 61-66 (2019)
- Object Documentary: The Ethics of the Documentary Encounter Reframed [Doctoral thesis], Goldsmiths, University of London (2018)
- Mecazi mekân (with Pınar Öğrenci) in Art Unlimited, pp 40-42 (2018)
- Neither Here Nor There: Investigating Instances of Showing, in Truth, Dare or Promise: Art and Documentary Revisited, eds. Daniels, J., Mclaughlin, C., Pearce, G., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 130-143 (2013)
- The Value of Disorientation, in The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists, pp. 40-41 (2013)
- Imago, in Photocinema: The Creative Edges of Photography and Film, eds. Campbell, N., Cramerotti, A., Intellect Books, pp. 146-147 (2013)
- Imago, in Dwelling Places: Taiwan International Video Art, Chew’s Culture Foundation, p. 91 (2008)
Filmography
- Love is not enough (in development)
- La Familia (in development)
- On the Tenderness of Men (2024)
- Everything ( 2013)
- I Remember (2010)
- All Shades of Grey (2009)
- Anatomy of Failure (2008)
- u never asked to be my mountain (2008)
- Sitting is Believing (2007)
- Limb from Limb (2007)
- Sich selbst vis-à-vis / Once self vis-à-vis (two-channel video 04:14, 2006)
- Imago (2006)
Screenings and exhibitions (selected)
- On the Tenderness of Men, Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film, Graz (2025)
- On the Tenderness of Men, Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (2025)
- On the Tenderness of Men, in FIX: Care and Repair, Architecture and Design Museum, (April 26, 2024 – January 5, 2025)
https://www.mfa.fi/en/exhibitions/fix-care-and-repair/ - Everything, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic (2018)
- Various works, Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento Buenos Aires (BIM), Argentina (2014)
- Sich selbst vis-à-vis / Once self vis-à-vis, in untitled male ID, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, UK (2013)
- Various works, in Truth, Dare or Promise, South London Gallery, UK (2012)
- Imago, in Nothing to Declare, Yuchengco Museum, Manila, Philippines (2012)
- Anatomy of Failure, XXVII Sarajevo Winter, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2011)
- Various works, in ResoVision, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK (2010)
- All Shades of Grey, in Unreal Asia, 55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany (2009)
- All Shades of Grey, Kasseler Dokfest, Germany (2009)
- Anatomy of Failure, XIV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Skopje, Bulgaria (2009)
- Imago, in PhotoCinema, QUAD Gallery, Derby, UK (2009) curator: Louis Clements
- Anatomy of Failure, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (2008)
- Imago, in Dwelling Places, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan (2008), curator: Sean C.S. Hu
- Limb from Limb, in Hollywould: Artists’ Replies to Hollywood, Los Angeles Filmforum USA (2008)
- Various works, in Fresh Air Machine, Calvert 2,2 Londo,n UK (2008)
- Imago, in Video Killed the Painting Star, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK (2007)
- Imago, in The Impossibility of the Beach, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, USA (2006)
Curatorial work (UK, Austria, USA, Turkey, Finland)
- Migrant Screen Cultures, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki 2021
- Little Stories and Narrative Threads: Countering the Heroic Telling of Architectural History, screening of Sasha Pirker’s work + discussion, Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) 2021
- THE DIASPORA IS A HOUSE TOO , screening of Öğrenci’s documentary Gurbet Is a Home, followed by a discussion on architecture and migration, HIAP 2020
- Filmprogramm IV, in UNDOX International Festival of Innovative Documentary Art, Belvedere Museum, Austria 2019
- The Revolution is not a Virgin, screening & performance programme, UnionDocs Centre for Documentary Art, USA 2019
- Metaphorical Space, exhibition & film programme, MARSistanbul and SALT Beyoğlu, Turkey 2018
- Object! On the Documentary as Art symposium, screening series, artists’ talks, Whitechapel Gallery and Close Up Film Centre, UK 2017
- Willing the Possible exhibition, MARSistanbul, Turkey 2017
- Object Documentary exhibition, screenings, artists’ talks (9-day programme), Bloc Projects, UK 2016
- Kiss me, gentlemen – In Pursuit of Realness, screening, UnionDocs Centre for Documentary Art, USA 2015
- Sheffield Fringe, exhibition, screenings, artists’ talks (9-day programme), Bloc Projects, UK 2014
- Evidentiary Dilemmas, public programme for Death of a Cameraman exhibition, apexart, USA 2013, curator: Martin Waldmeier
- Sheffield Fringe, exhibition, screenings, artists’ talks (3-day programme), Bloc Projects, UK 2013
- Sheffield Fringe, 3-day programme of events, S1 Artspace, UK 2012
- Mainstream 2.1, public programme incl. films & performance, Angus-Hughes Gallery, UK 2011
- Wild Thinking, screening event, Apt 301, UK 2011
Research funding and grants
2021 – 2024 Kone Foundation, Revolutionary Patience: Migrant Perspectives On Doing Politics With the Documentary
2014 & 2016 Arts Council England, Sheffield Fringe (Grants for the Arts)
2012 – 2015 Arts & Humanities Research Council, Object Documentary: The Ethics of the Documentary Encounter Reframed
2006 – 2007 Arts & Humanities Research Council (Postgraduate award)
Invited talks / major conference presentations (selected)
Visible Evidence 2014/2022/2025, Screen Studies conference 2021, College Art Association 2019, TED 2011
Residencies
March 2022 Purple Tree Bangkok
June 2020 – Nov 2021 HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme
Awards and peer recognition
2011 TED Fellowship
2006 Best Experimental Film award, Tirana International Film Festival
2002 Performers Rights Society award for Sound Design of the broadcast documentary Home Truths
2002 Corporation of London, London Connexion, Awards for All, film production funding for Home Truths