WRITING

  • H is for History, N is for Now introduction, exhibition catalogue, Solar Galleria de Arte Cinematica, Vila do Conde (2026)
  • A Change of Register (Notes on Man number 4), World Records Journal 9: Just Evidence (2025).
  • Hospital Green, in ‘Found Footage & Collage Films: The Artist’s Voice‘, edited by César Ustarroz (2025)
  • Space Invaders: how does the coloniser see? lecture, as part of ‘EVIL EYE: parallel histories of ballistics and optics‘ symposium at Tabakalera Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastian (October 2022)
  • History as science fiction, paper at ‘Levels of Life: Photography, Imaging and the Vertical Perspective’ (2022) conference at London College of Communication and Photographers’ Gallery.
  • ‘A couple of years ago…’, p 331-337, essay in “Liberated Film Club” (2021) edited by Winstanley Schtinter, Tenement Press.
  • “On Looking More Justly at an Image of the Past” (2019) Journal of Media Practice and Education, 1-14, Routledge 
  • Visualising Spatial Injustice Q&A – Mediapolis Journal of Cities & Culture (July 2018)
  • On looking more justly at an image of the past. Presentation Politics & Poetics of Documentary symposium (Sussex University, June 2017)
  • Gestures of Love and Violence, performance – lecture – screening (2013 – ongoing).  Part 2 of the lecture takes up themes to do with cartoons, violence, animism and dance as resistance.
  • Towards an ethics of looking (September 2016)  Photography in academic research conference at UCL, London.
  • Film as an archive for colonial photographs: activating the past in the present. PhD thesis 2016
  • On looking at photographs from Iran, in The Guardian’s Tehran Bureau (March 2016)
  • The Expedition (March 2016) trouble in the colonial archive…
  • Rules of the Game, by Miranda Pennell, chapter in Truth, Dare or Promise: Art and Documentary Revisited,  (2013), edited by Jill Daniels, Cahal McLaughlin, Gail Pearce. [Chapter on filming performance and filmmaking as performance. Buy the book Cambridge Scholars Publishing.]
  • Thoughts on Now-ness and Then-ness, in Journal of Screen Dance (Spring 2010, Vol. 1)