Articles

Never Compromised: Revisiting the Work of Peter Watkins (Ocula, 10 November 2025).

Columbia University ‘Stupidity’ on Gaza Encampments Radicalised Students Worldwide (Novara Media, 6 June 2025).
Interview with Michael T. Workman, co-director of The Encampments (2025).

The Unbearable Likeness of Being (Open City Texts, 6 May 2025).
On John Smith’s film Being John Smith (2024).

Mastering the Art of Archive Filmmaking (Frieze, 26 March 2025).
An article on teaching about archival film, with reference to Jasmina Cibic, Arthur Jafa, Bill Morrison, Artavazd Peleshian, Esfir Shub and others.

Warehouse Workers are Too Tired to See a Way Out (Novara Media, 24 March 2025).
An interview with Laura Carreira about her debut feature film, On Falling (2024).

No Other Land Has Exposed the Film Industry’s Cowardice (Novara Media, 19 February 2025).
On the documentary’s lack of distribution in the United States.

The Melodrama of Maz Murray (Frieze, 7 May 2024).

The New Sci-Fi Cinema of Shu Lea Cheang (Frieze, 16 April 2024).

The Zone of Interest reminds us how easy it is to ignore a genocide on your doorstep (Novara Media, 26 February 2024).

Argentina Wants to Whitewash Its Military Junta. Unfortunately, There’s Video Evidence (Novara Media, 29 January 2024).
On Ulises de la Orden’s documentary The Trial (2023) and the legacy of Argentina’s military regime.

‘Have yourself an experimental Christmas’ (SCHIRN, 20 December 2023).
A list of my favourite avant-garde and experimental Christmas films, including works by Ladislas Starevich, Karel Zeman, Gregory Markopoulos, Kurt Kren and Peter Tscherkassky.

‘Went to the cinema. Wept. Matchless entertainment.’ (Art Review, 22 November 2023).
A review of Stanley Schtinter’s book Last Movies.

Palestinian Satirical Cinema Has the Last Laugh (Novara Media, 15 November 2023).
On Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention (2002) and Mayor (2020) by David Osit.

Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren on 20,000 Species of Bees (Curzon, 27 October 2023).
Interview with the director about her debut film.

Aged 82, Patricio Guzmán is Still Making Revolutionary Cinema (Novara Media, 18 October 2023).

A journey throughout the decades with Super 8 (SCHIRN, 10 August 2023).
A potted history of the Super-8 medium, looking at works by Martha Rosler, Derek Jarman, Annie Ernaux and others.

Laughing at the Void (Jacobin, 28 July 2023).
Revisiting Armando Iannucci’s satire about the build-up to the Iraq War, In the Loop (2009).

Queercoding in Art and Film: The Portrayal of St Sebastian (SCHIRN, 9 June 2023).
On Derek Jarman’s first feature film, and other queer portrayals of St Sebastian in works by Keith Vaughan, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, Miles Greenberg and others.

The Brilliant, Contradictory Vision of Kenneth Anger (Art Review, 26 May 2023).

Finding a Home in the Avant-Garde (Criterion, 13 February 2023).
About my first encounters with the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative in 2003.

Nan Goldin takes a stand – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed reviewed (Apollo, 20 January 2023).

‘Each Film Invents a New Language’: An interview with John Smith (Frieze, 2 November 2022).

Jean-Luc Godard Saved My Life (Art Review, 21 September 2022).

The Second Game (Paper Visual Art issue 14, autumn 2022 – print-only).
On Corneliu Porumbiou’s film from 2014.

Zvenigora: Looking back at a Ukrainian cinema marvel (Red Pepper, 2 August 2022).
On Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s 1928 film.

Pride 2021: Trans People on Screen (Curzon, 30 June 2021).

On Adam Curtis: Can’t Get You Out of My Head (The White Review, 29 April 2021).

Soul Sisters: Watching Maria Lassnig’s Self-Suppressed Films (ArtReview, 9 April 2021).

How Narkevičius‘ The Role of a Lifetime Showed Me a New World of Dissent (Elephant, 23 March 2021).

The Radical Film Collective That Prefigured YouTube (Frieze, 25 January 2021).
On 1970s, New York-based counter-cultural film collective Videofreex.

The Battle for the BBC (Frieze, 14 October 2020).
On the legacy of the Play for Today series, the Conservative Party’s treatment of the BBC, and ideas about cultural democracy.

Mal Picks with Juliet Jacques (Mal, 14 April 2020).
Discussing films by J. S. Watson & Melville Webber, Jerry Tartaglia, Maria Beatty, Jo Ann Kaplan and Hito Steyerl.

‘Under suspicion’: An interview with Sebastián Lelio (Sight & Sound, March 2018 – print-only).

A fantastic leap – trans cinema’s breakthrough moment (The Guardian, 2 February 2018).

The Crying Game (BFI DVD release, 2017 – print-only).

Momument Man: Deimantas Narkevičius (Sight & Sound, May 2016 – print-only).

Performing the Past (The White Review, January 2016).
On Clio Barnard’s short film Dark Glass (2006).

(nostalgia) (Granta, July 2015).
An essay about Hollis Frampton’s 1971 film and my creative practice.

Ten great transgender films (BFI, March 2014).

Ten silent films you may not have seen (New Statesman, 13 January 2013).

Trans films at the LLGFF (TimeOut, 8 March 2012).

Live Flesh: an interview with Alfredo Martínez Expósito and Santiago Fouz-Hernández (Filmwaves, 2008).

24 Frames a Second: Peter Tscherkassky, Gustav Deutsch and the Austrian avant-garde (Filmwaves, 2007).

Interview with the British Independent Film Awards committee (Filmwaves, 2007 – print-only).

A history of British avant-garde film: 1985-1994 (Filmwaves, 2007 – print-only).

A history of British avant-garde film: 1975-1985 (FIlmwaves, 2006 – print-only).

A history of British avant-garde film: 1965-1975 (Filmwaves, 2006 – print-only).

A history of British avant-garde film: 1940-1964 (Filmwaves, 2006 – print-only).

A history of British avant-garde film: 1930-1939 (Filmwaves, 2005 – print-only).

A history of British avant-garde film: 1896-1930 (Filmwaves, 2005 – print-only).

Situating Cinema: The film work of Guy Debord (Filmwaves, 2005 – print-only).

Futurism, Formalism and Film (Filmwaves, 2004 – print-only).

Reviews

Adam Curtis Plays the Hits (Tribune, 6 August 2025 – subscribers only).
On Curtis’ new BBC iPlayer series Shifty.

Blitz is Steve McQueen’s Most Conventional Film Yet – and That’s No Bad Thing (Novara, 25 November 2024).

Asif Kapadia Doesn’t Know What He’s Trying to Say (Novara Media, 29 October 2024).
On the director’s new film 2073 (2024).

Workers of the World: Harun Farocki Leaves the Factory (The Quietus, 1 April 2023).

Disclosure (dir. Sam Feder, 2020) (Sight & Sound, 28 September 2020).

Little Girl (dir. Sébastien Lifshitz, 2020) (Sight & Sound, 24 September 2020).

Underexposed: the Role of Women Filmmakers in the Early Days of Cinema (Frieze, 19 September 2019).

In the Intense Now (dir. João Moreira Salles, 2018) (Tribune issue 3, spring 2019).

In Place of the Real: LGBT+ artists’ film and video (Frieze, 9 April 2019).

Vivian Ostrovsky’s playful politics (Frieze, 25 March 2019).

Not Home: on Gustav Deutsch (Frieze, 29 July 2016).

Short Film Series by Guy Sherwin (Frieze, 23 June 2015).

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (dir. Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno, 2005) (3:AM, 12 December 2013).

Underground (dir. Anthony Asquith, 1929) (New Statesman, 3 June 2013).

You’re Human Like the Rest of Them: The films of B. S. Johnson (3:AM, 22 May 2013).

City of Lost Souls (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1983) (3:AM, 4 January 2012).

By the Law (dir. Lev Kuleshov, 1926) (Cineaste, 2011).

Four Lions (dir. Chris Morris, 2009) (Cineaste vol. 36, no. 2, spring 2011 – print-only).

From Morning to Midnight (dir. Karlheinz Martin, 1920) (Cineaste, 2011).

Ian Breakwell: British Artists’ Films (Filmwaves, 2008 – print-only).

Screaming Queens (dir. Susan Stryker & Victor Silverman, 2007) (Vertigo, 2008).

Cine Manifest (dir. Judy Irola, 2006) (Cineaste vol. 32, no. 4, fall 2007 – print-only).

Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass (dir. Dziga Vertov, 1931) (Cineaste vol. 32, no. 1, winter 2006 – print-only).

Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film (Filmwaves, 2005 – print-only).

William Raban: British Artists’ Films (Filmwaves, 2005 – print-only).