INTERVIEWS

  • “A detective trying to piece together the missing bits of history”: Miranda Pennell on her retrospective at Curtas Vila do Conde, interview Victor Paz, Senses of Cinema, October 2026.
  • ‘Miranda Pennell: “I would like cinema to open up a space for justice”‘ interview with Manuel Halpern, Wild At Heart, August 2026.
  • ‘Miranda Pennell guia-nos pela toca do coelho das imagens coloniais’ a conversation with Jorge Mourhina, Publico, August 2, 2026. Interview about ‘H is for History, N is for Now’, solo exhibition at Solar Gallery, Vila do Conde.
  • Miranda Pennell interview, in the book Eyes Open: New Perspectives on Colonial Film Heritage, published by Eye Filmmuseum, 2026
  • Fade to Her, interview with Tara Karajica (February 2026) ‘At this year’s European Film Awards, Tara Karajica spoke with Pennell about her latest short film, “Man Number 4,” which centers on a disturbing photograph taken in Gaza in December 2023′.
  • Miranda Pennell in conversation with Marko Milovanovic: un-archiving imperialism (2023, video)
  • ‘Strange Objects: Conversations around four films by Miranda Pennell’, Kamila Kuc and Jananne al-Ani in Found Footage Magazine (Issue 9, October 2023)
  • FID Marseille interview: on TROUBLE (2023) with Margot Mecca [click tab on right]
  • ‘Miranda Pennell on Strange Object’ Comrades of the Kino podcast. In this episode, the comrades interview filmmaker and scholar Miranda Pennell about her new film Strange Object. We discuss the Dervish resistance in British Somaliland, tropes of the colonial encounter and colonial warfare, as well as her personal approach the ambiguity of photographs. 04.06. 2021
  • ‘A Q&A with Miranda Pennell, artist and filmmaker’ by Chris Sharratt (March 2016) in a-n (Artists Newletter)
  • ‘Selective memory and partial remembrance are a problem’ Miranda Pennell interviewed by Georgia Korossi (March 2016) BFI
  • ‘A filmmaker on archives and autobiography: Photos always make you feel they hold a secret beyond their obvious meaning’ Its Nice That (March 2016)
  • Indiewire presents London Film Festival 2015 Women Directors: Meet Miranda Pennell – ‘The Host’  October 2015)
  • On working with archives. Miranda Pennell: interview by Alessandra Ferrini (2013), part 1 and part 2 in Mnemoscape.
  • Dazed Digital interview: Miranda Pennell retrospective at the 2011 Glasgow Short Film Festival