2025
Workshop: Early Career Critics, Berwick Film & Media Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 28 March.
Workshop: Creating Light Shows, London Short Film Festival. With artists Julian Hand and Heena Song. Rich Mix Cinema, London, 21 January.
2024
British Film Institute Study Day, November 8. Invited to speak on feminist film theory.
Artist in Residence Talk, Onoma Gallery, Fiskars, Finland, 25 August.
“Ordinary Family Life is Rich and Interesting”: The Lacey’s Family Rituals. Paper presented at CATHI Associate Research Fellows Day, De Montford University, Leicester. 10 July.
Cinematic Exorcisms from the Dark Side of the 1970s: Lilford Hall. Co-curated with William Fowler a screening of Lilford Hall (Penny Slinger and Peter Whitehead) with a live score by The Begotten at Horse Hospital. 29 June.
Falling Lessons: The Films of Amy Halpern. Curated a two-part film program on Amy Halpern’s films for Open City Documentary Festival. 26 April at Institute of Contemporary Arts, and 28 April at Close-up Cinema.
M.A.M.A. Artist Residency, Queen’s Collective, Marrakesh, Morocco. April 2-12.
Women of Surrealism film program as part of Who is Luis Buñuel? season at the Garden Cinema. February 8. On a panel discussing women experimental film-makers and surrealism.
2023
Jane Arden: Explode the Language at the British Film Institute. Co-curated with William Fowler a two-part focus on Jane Arden, looking at her contributions to the television drama, radical feminist theatre, film, and acting. Link. I also hosted a Q&A for the screening of The Other Side of the Underneath. 9 September.
Another Gaze Critics Workshop, Open City Documentary Festival, 10 September.
Cult Film and Television Reading Group, King’s College London, 10 December. Presented my research on Stephen Dwoskin’s early underground features.
British Film Institute A-level Study Day, 10 December. Invited to speak on feminist film theory.
2022
Experimenta Focus: Stephen Dwoskin at the British Film Institute, London. I spoke with actor Jenny Runacre on a panel about Dwoskin after a screening of Times For. January.
At Home With the Boyle Family at IKLECTIK arts lab. I chaired a discussion with filmmakers Chris de Selincourt, Kim Heaney and artist Sebastian Boyle after a screening of the art documentary, At Home with the Boyle Family, where I also appear reenacting Boyle Family’s light projections with David Bardo. 13 November.
2020
Sisters of the Extreme film event at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle. I co-curated a film program with Kathryn Siegel on women experimental filmmakers and the occult, featuring the work of Amy Halpern, Betzy Bromberg, and Storm de Hirsch. This was the winning entry of the Projections Curatorial Open Call.
2019
Rome is Burning: The Legacy of American Independent Shirley Clarke at the British Film Institute. I was on a panel discussing the work of Shirley Clarke. October 2019.
Adventures Underground: Carroll in the Psychedelic World at the Art Workers’ Guild, London. I was invited by the Lewis Carroll Society to give a talk on Carroll’s influence on psychedelic culture in the 1960s. 26 April 2019.
SPECTRAL/OLFACTORY with Bardo Light Show & SonicSoul at Guest Projects.
2018
SPECTRAL/OLFACTORY performance-lecture as part of Mint Work’s GHOST show at Guest Projects. I collaborated with light show artist David Bardo, gong practitioner SonicSoul and tie-dye artist Courtenay Pollock on a multimedia performance lecture looking at projected light and the sense of smell. November.
Fuzz Death Ballet: Performance, Projections and Protest in the British Counterculture Before 1968, Paper presented at the Autumn Film School: Cinema and 1968 conference at the Slovenian Cinemateque, Ljubljana. I was invited to speak on my research at the annual Autumn Film School.
Women in the Wake of ‘68: An Interdisciplinary Conference at King’s College London. Chaired a panel discussion.
Granny Takes a Trip event at Royal Albert Hall’s Summer of Love: Revisited program. Performance. 26 June.
Spoke about 1960s light shows at CATHI Associate Research Fellows Day, De Montfort University, Leicester. 6 June 2018.
1968 and its Legacies conference at Kings College London. I was a postgraduate administrator for the conference and helped put together a multimedia event and film screening. June 2018.
Projecting Psychedelia at Regent Street Cinema. I curated a psychedelic film program on the films of Kevin Whitney and Anthony Stern as part of De Montfort University’s View from Underground season. April 5.
Women of the Counterculture event at Regent Street Cinema. I co-curated, with Dr. Alissa Clarke, a screening of Dope (1968) and panel discussion featuring folk icon and activist Julie Felix; singer-songwriter Carol Grimes; countercultural figure and English Boy model Jenny Spires; and artist and Exploding Galaxy member, Jill Drower. April 25.
Underground discotheques and intermediality in 1960s London. Paper presented at NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Amsterdam.
Women of the Counterculture event at Regent Street Cinema, 2018 (c.) Ryan Henry .
2017
Psychedelia and Architecture in the films of Anthony Stern. Paper presented at From Profumo to Performance: New Perspectives on 1960s British Cinema symposium, University of York, 1 September.
The “Ultimate Dream Environment”: Filming the Psychedelic Nightclub. Paper presented at Tonite Let’s All Make Love in Leicester: Peter Whitehead and the Long 1960s conference at De Montfort University, Leicester, 3-4 March.
Alice’s Adventures in Underground Culture at Horse Hospital, London. I was on a panel with Andy Roberts, Jake Fior, and John Coulthart discussing Alice in Wonderland’s influence on psychedelic culture, for a three-day exhibition hosted by The Psychedelic Museum.
A Date With Mike Sarne. Muse Gallery, 27 June. Hosted an evening with pop singer, fashion photographer and film maker Michael Sarne.
Dilating Designs: Time And Space In Late 1960s Psychedelic Cinema. Paper presented with Dr Mark Broughton at Breaking Convention: Fourth International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, University of Greenwich. 30th June.
Get All that Ant? screening at Slaughterhaus, London. I introduced Anthony Stern’s new film. July.
A Little Place off the Portobello Road: Walking through West London’s Alternative Film History. Performance-lecture at Transition Gallery, London as part of Ghost Cinema program of talks, curated by Cathy Lomax, link.
2016
“Time Turns Turtle”: Representing Expanded Notions of Time with the Classical Indian Film Score. Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. Paper presented at Trans/Media: Trans/National Screens BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) Conference 2016 University of Reading, April 14-16.
Return of the Living-dead Cinema, NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Workshop co-curated with Anna Luise Kiss and Marta Małgorzata Wąsik, Potsdam, Germany, 26-27 July.
Close-up on VALIE EXPORT at Close Up Film Centre, London. I introduced a screening of Export and Peter Weibel’s Invisible Adversaries (1976). 30 October.
CAMIRA Jury at Festival Márgenes, Madrid. I was on the CAMIRA film jury at the Spanish film festival. December.
2015
The Boyle Family's Son et Lumière for Insects, Reptiles, and Water Creatures (1966) and the Biological Aesthetic of Light Shows. Paper presented at the NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Archives of/for the Future, Łódź Poland.
Hosted a Q&A with production designer Emanuele Taglietti after a screening of Juliet of the Spirits. Hosted by Black Decagon Film Club at Gosh Comics for Scalarama, 10 September.
2014
VIBRATIONS. An installation and visual essay collaboration with the musician Twink for Mint Collective, a partner project of Marrakech Biennale 2014.
Pop Europe? symposium, Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Presented work-in-progress research at a symposium held in connection with the Pop Europe? exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
Sisters of the Extreme presents ... Dope (1968) at the Horse Hospital, London. I programmed a screening of Dope (Sheldon Rochlin and Flame Schon, 1968) and Iggy the Eskimo Girl (Anthony Stern, 1966) as a benefit for the arts venue.
Wotever Film Festival at the Cinema Museum, London. I spoke on a panel about film criticism and writing. August.
2013
Medical Experimental film screening at Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam. Co-curated with other students on the Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image module. Included in the program was our short film, 190 E Of Euphoria (Sophia Satchell-Baeza, Travis Werlen, Nil Baskar, 2013).
Paper presented at NECS -European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Workshop, Universität Wien, Vienna, February.
Film screenings programmed at Joe’s Garage, Amsterdam. A series.