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The Foibles of Homo Faber: on Frederick Wiseman's Primate
A short essay on Frederick Wiseman's Primate (1974), a docu-horror about the limits of scientific vision.
Mar 12, 2025
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Three Images, Occluded, Bared
One of my favourite things to do is to write short, little prose pieces; observations, fiction and sometimes combinations of the two.
Feb 26, 2025
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"A Letter to My Children": An Interview with Rabie Mustapha
An interview with Rabie Mustapha on his film, The Cities I Live In.
Dec 18, 2024
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Portrait of a Landscape Sewn Into Our Skin: An Interview with Katie McFadden
In early September at the inaugural Dissolutions festival down in Dublin, I curated and presented a programme of six short films from the North of…
Oct 11, 2024
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Living And Looking In The Manner Of Smoke
On Cameron Worden's You're Dancing This Dance All Wrong (2023)
May 1, 2024
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The Fruits of Our Labour: An Interview with Tulapop Saenjaroen
An interview with Tulapop Saenjaroen on his latest film Mangosteen (2022), exploratory forms of storytelling, image-making and politics, and the…
Feb 20, 2024
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Foragers: An Anti-Imperialist Pastoral
A short piece on Palestinian filmmaker and visual artist Jumana Manna's Foragers (2022)
Dec 20, 2023
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A Note on Marathon and Amir Naderi, a City Symphonist
This is a piece on Amir Naderi, one of his finest films, Marathon (2002), and his skill with sound and in depicting city (ar)rhythms.
Oct 18, 2023
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