I contributed a book chapter on 1960s Japanese discotheques and expanded cinema to The Palgrave Handbook of Experimental Cinema, edited by Kim Knowles and Jonathan Walley. Out now! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Heading to Rome later this week for Villa Médicis Film Festival! I was on their selection committee this year, and I'll be doing Q&As with Truong Minh Quy, Adam Piron and Gelare Koshgozaran. Here's the competition line-up; see link for other screenings villamedici.it/en/festival-di…

I'm participating in the symposium: Keiichi Tanaami at Present at 国立新美術館 The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo, today 2pm, where I'll discuss his flicker films and our Collaborative Cataloging Japan projects on his 1960-70s works. Speaking alongside Hiroko Ikegami, Tabaimo and Mariko Asabuki. nact.jp/english/event/…

Now showing: THE PLAINS an exacting portrait of modern life shot from the backseat of a car by DAVID EASTEAL  A remarkable debut tracing a friendship over a year’s worth of commutes at peak traffic hour on the outskirts of Melbourne.  For one week on lecinemaclub.com.

✅ First week at my new job. Excited to share that I joined Eye Filmmuseum (Eye Filmmuseum) earlier this week as their new head of film programming & distribution!

I'm one of the three curators for this year's @filmexplorer_ch video essay (online) exhibition. Alongside @evelyn_kreutzer and Volker Pantenburg, I co-curated 3 programmes (3 films each), and recorded a podcast reflecting on each. filmexplorer.ch/video-essay-ga…

We launched the first programme "Who Owns an Image" this week - my pick was Maryam Jafri's Mariam Jafri Vs. Maryam Jafri (2021). Stream this and the two other picks for FREE until 20 Oct. Audio discussion also live! filmexplorer.ch/video-essay-ga…

I contributed an essay to the publication VISIO: Moving Images in Europe Since the 2010s, edited by Leonardo Bagazzi, which is out now. Lovely to be part of this book with such a special line-up of contributors. lenz.press/products/visio

On this week’s Podcast, Christopher Harris joins to discuss his rich and varied body of work. His latest shorts closed the 2024 Whitney Museum Biennial and his films are currently the subject of a weeklong retrospective Anthology Film Archives. 🎧: filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-…

Come work with me? Job vacancy: Head of Exhibitions Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam. assets.eyefilm.nl/downloads/bloc…

☀️The Engawa Film Programme brings together films that explore Japan’s collective memory and its relationships with history and identity. In collaboration with CAM Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, curated by Julian Ross

I'll be in conversation with Chia-Wei Hsu and Hito Steyerl this week, the 2024 and 2015 recipients of the Eye Art & Film Prize. Fri 16:30 Eye Filmmuseum. eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/ey…

I'll intro Kisses (Yasuzo Masumura, 1957) on Monday 21 Oct 19:15 Eye Filmmuseum. 4K restoration with ENG subtitles. eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/ki…

A belated repost: thank you Joshua Minsoo Kim for reviewing our Collaborative Cataloging Japan exhibition in The Wire! 🙏 Really appreciate these reflections.

We just launched the next chapter of our @filmexplorer_ch video essay (online) exhibition: How to Measure the World. My pick is Constant by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, available to stream for free until 24 Nov. filmexplorer.ch/video-essay-ga…

Screening today!