EDUCATION
Academic
2015-2021 Harvard University
PhD: Film and Visual Studies with Secondary Field in Anthropology
2012-2013 University of Cambridge (King’s College)
MPhil: Screen Media and Cultures (Distinction)
2009-2012 Goldsmiths College, University of London
BA Hons: Art Practice (First Class)
Professional
2022-2023 University of the Arts London
PGCert Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication
Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
2013-2015 Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation
Graduate Scholarship, Tokyo, Japan
PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming book
Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction (University of California Press, 2026)
Book chapters
2023
“Cultivating Hinterland: What Lies Behind Agnes Denes’s Wheatfield?” in Esther Peeren and Hanneke Stuit (eds.) Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment, and Care (London: Palgrave Macmillan)
"Annotated Landscape: Wales and Jamaica" in: Dylan Huw et al. (eds.) Troi, Trosi (Cardiff: Arts Council of Wales)
2021
“Landscape Theory in Post-War Japanese Cinema: Fūkeiron in Adachi Masao’s A. K. A. Serial Killer," in Ludovic Cortade and Guillaume Soulez (eds.) Penser l’espace avec le cinéma et la littérature / Thinking Space with Cinema and Literature (New York: Peter Lang)
Refereed journal articles
2025
"Learning from Land Cinema: political pedagogy, plots and plantations," Film Education Journal (forthcoming)
2024
“For a World to Come: Designing the Future Amid Climate Crisis.” arq: Architectural Research Quarterly (December)
2023
“Climate, Capital, Colonialism: A Congolese Perspective,” Journal of Climate Resilience & Climate Justice, MIT Press (Spring)
2022
“Filming-Gardening in the Neoliberal Age: Ambivalences in the Life and Work of Anne Charlotte Robertson,” Screen 63/1 (Spring)
2022
"Field Work: Ogawa Productions as Farmer-Filmmakers," Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) (Ecologies special edition, Spring)
Selected essays and criticism
2024
"Growing Food and Film," Karachi Biennale (English and Urdu)
"Self-Portrait: Window in 47km," Sight & Sound
2023
"Farmer-Filmmakers, Fieldwork, and Growth,” KINO! (Slovenian)
"Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image," Sight & Sound
"Remembering the Future" co-written with MOULD collective, The Laboratory of the Future, Venice Biennale 18th International Architecture Exhibition
"Architecture is Climate" co-written with MOULD collective, e-flux Architecture
2022
"Tsuchimoto Noriaki: Politicising Public Relations," Sight & Sound
"Barbara Loden's Wanda," Sight & Sound
"At the Movies with Ryusuke Hamaguchi," Sight & Sound
2021
“Cryptofiction: Streaming Political Film Today,” Sight & Sound
“Sabaya, documentary, and politics,” Sight & Sound
“Cannes Film Festival: Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s Drive My Car,” Sight & Sound
“Cannes Film Festival: Hong Sang-soo’s In Front of Your Face,” Sight & Sound
“Fauna in Six False Starts,” Critics Week, Berlin International Film Festival
“Acts of Imagination: Hamaguchi Ryusuke,” Sight & Sound
2020
"There is no conclusion to this assembly," co-written with Julian Ross, Non-Fiction Journal
2019
"Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival," Sight & Sound
"Zhang Mengqi on Rural Documentary in China," Film Comment
“Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year Diary,” Film Comment
"Vulnerable Histories: Koki Tanaka," Art Asia Pacific
"Artists' Moving Images in Asia: Panel Report," International Film Festival Rotterdam
"Shengze Zhu, Documentary Filmmaker" Film Comment
“Aya Koretzky,” IFFR Daily, International Film Festival Rotterdam
2018
“Margaret Tait: A Working Landscape,” Sight & Sound
“Wanderlust: Women’s Films About Walking” Sight & Sound
Various articles incl. “New York Film Festival/ Projections: Sky Hopinka,” “Locarno: Yeo Siew Hua,” “Richard Billingham’s photography and film,” Film Comment
“Time Pieces and Early Cinema,” Index, Harvard Art Museums
“Maria Alché,” Variety
2017
“Landscape/ Portrait: The Films of Ana Mendieta,’ Sight & Sound
“The Human Surge: Eduardo Williams,” Frieze
2016
“Ben Rivers: A Politics of Representation,” King’s Review, University of Cambridge
“Memory and Reconstruction: Japanese photography and architecture,” Ocula
2015
“Mikhail Karikis and Film Installation,” Frieze
Various articles incl. “Parasophia, Kyoto,” “Tokyo Art Itinerary in Five Parts,” Ocula
2014
Various articles incl. “Japan Focus,” “Yokohama Triennale,” “Mediacity Seoul” Ocula
Various articles incl. “New Intimacies,” “Yebisu International Festival of Art and Alternative Visions,” “Roppongi Crossing,” Frieze
“Cinema of Intimacy: Steve McQueen” King’s Review, University of Cambridge
Selected catalogue essays
2019
“Shengze Zhu,” Frames of Representation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
2018
“Jessica Sarah Rinland: Natural Histories,” Curto Circuito International Film Festival, Santiago
2012
“Julie Born-Schwartz: Fly Me to the Moon,” Kunstarkaden, Munich