Selected Writing
Monograph
Sensual Laboratories: Light Shows, Experimental Film and Psychedelic Art. Forthcoming with Strange Attractor Press in June 2025.
Journal Articles/Book Chapters
Monkey’s Birthday (1975): Digression and self-othering on the hippie trail. Forthcoming in Moving Image Review & Art Journal.
Psychedelic psychodrama: Raising and expanding consciousness in Jane Arden’s The Other Side of the Underneath (1973), History of Human Sciences Journal, Volume 34, Issue 5, 21 June 2021, link.
Panic at the Disco: Brainwashing, Alienation and the Discotheque in Swinging London Films, in Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered, edited by Duncan Petrie, Melanie Williams and Laura Mayne (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 239-254.
Peyote Queen: Trance, Ritual and the Female Body in the Short Films of Storm de Hirsch, Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal, Issue 4, March 2020, pp. 90-95.
Fuzz Death Ballet: Performance, Projections and Protest in the British Counterculture Before 1968, in The Resistance-Image: Militant Documentary on the Battlefields of May ’68 (Ljubljana: Slovenian Cinemateque, 2019).
The Visible Woman: In Conversation with Penny Slinger, Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal, Issue 3, July 2019, pp. 156-162.
1968 and its Legacies, or, the Historiohappening and Beyond, Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture, 28 August 2018, link. With Dr. Mark Broughton.
Incision to Incite: Notes on Broken Tongue and the Radical Implications of Collage, La Furia Umana, 15 May 2015.
Interview with Kelly Gallagher, La Furia Umana, Issue 9, 2015.
Transparent Materials through which Light Passes: An Interview with Anthony Stern, La Furia Umana, No. 21, 2011.
Selected Writing (Reviews, Features)
What is RaMell Ross Looking For? ArtReview, 17 January 2025, link.
Wake the Witch. MUBI Program Notes for Elizabeth Sankey’s Witches (2024).
Favoriten, BFI Online, 5 December 2024, link.
The Taste of Mango, BFI Online, 22 November 2024, link.
Why Can’t You Let Your Imagination Grow? An interview with Andrea Arnold, Sight & Sound, December 2024, Volume 34, Issue 10.
Reviews of Emilia Pérez, link, and Lee, link, Sight & Sound, November 2024.
‘Fathom Hell, Soar Angelic’: Are Immersive Art Shows Short-Circuiting Transcendence? ArtReview, 20 August 2024, link.
Scores of the Century, Sight & Sound, August 2024.
Experimental Film is For Babies, ArtReview, 19 June 2024, link.
Lost and Found: Andre Cayatte’s The Pleasure Pit; a review of Orlando, My Political Biography, link, and a short feature on Teddy Boys and Girls in Cinema. Sight and Sound, June 2024.
The Dark Side of the Tune: An Interview with Mica Levi, Sight and Sound, May 2024, link. I also have a review of Our Body (Claire Simon, 2023).
Rediscovered: Black Zero, Sight & Sound, April 2024. A feature on Stephen Broomer’s Blu-ray label that releases Canadian avant-garde films.
The Samsara Experience, Curzon Journal, 18 January 2024, link.
The Disappearance of Shere Hite, Sight & Sound, 11 January 2023, link.
Lost and Found: Niki de Saint Phalle and Peter Whitehead’s Daddy, Sight & Sound, October 2023.
Endings: Midnight Cowboy, Sight & Sound, November 2023.
20,000 Species of Bees, Sight & Sound, 24 October 2023, link.
Heaven and hell on earth: The films of the Ormond Family, Sight & Sound, 2 October 2023, link.
A Cinema of Fluid Forms: Five Films by Ellie Epp, Ultra Dogme, August 2023, link.
Rediscovery: Barbara Rubin, Sight & Sound, March 2023.
Luminous Procuress, Sight & Sound, Summer 2022.
El Mar La Mar, Sight & Sound, Winter 2022-2023.
Rediscovery: House of Psychotic Women Rarities Collection, Sight & Sound, November 2022.
Rediscovery: Storm de Hirsch, Mythology for the Soul, Sight & Sound, April 2023.
Blue Bag Life: a painful examination of addiction and abandonment, BFI Online, April 2023, link.
Cette Maison: a reflexive, imaginative reckoning with the death of a loved one, Sight & Sound, 7 November 2022, link.
The Ballad of Tam Lin, Sight & Sound, December 2022.
Funhouse Mirrors of the Mind: Ira Cohen’s Mylar Chamber, Shindig! Issue 124, February 2022, pp. 64-69.
Nitrate Homages to Barbara Hammer, Notebook, 12 March 2021, link.
Business as Usual: Close-Up on John Smith’s “Citadel,” Notebook, 16 February 2021, link.
From Social Issues to Softcore: Close-Up on Liv Ullmann in “The Wayward Girl,” Notebook, 22 December 2020, link.
A Rich Tapestry of Black Experience: Close-Up on Oscar Micheaux’s "Within Our Gates," Notebook, 17 June 2020, link.
Film Festival Coverage
The Cemetery of Cinema: A Berlinale Forum Expanded Dispatch, Notebook, 20 March 2023, link.
Blood and Guts in High School: An Interview with Jennifer Reeder, Notebook, 9 March 2023, link.
Being in a Place: an allusive, pleasingly fluid portrait of Margaret Tait, BFI Online, 6 March 2023, link.
London Film Festival Experimenta Correspondence with Patrick Gamble, Alt-Kino, 16 October 2022, link and link.
The Work We Share: Sistren Theatre Collective’s Sweet Sugar Rage, Alt-Kino, 12 April 2022, link.
Artists’ Film Biennial, ICA 2014, NECSUS Journal, Autumn 2015.
Interviews and Artist Profiles
The Dark Side of the Tune: An Interview with Mica Levi, Sight and Sound, May 2024, link.
Rudie Can't Fail: Director Jack Hazan on Pre-Thatcher Punk Portrait "Rude Boy," Notebook, 8 August 2023, link.
Nina Menkes: giving voice to female rage and despair, Sight & Sound, May 2023, link. This interview was reprinted in the booklet for the BFI Blu-ray release of Brainwashed.
Peaches or Weed: Carla Simón’s "Alcarràs" and the Rural Renaissance in Recent Spanish Cinema, Notebook, 24 February 2023, link.
Penny Slinger: “If Art Cannot Shift Your Sense of Reality, Then It Is Not Doing Its Job,” Elephant, 19 October 2022.
“I Don’t Want to Make Films for Elites”: An Interview with John Smith, Notebook, 5 October 2022, link.
Amy Halpern obituary, BFI Online, 21 September 2022, link.
Anthony Stern obituary, BFI Online, 4 March 2022, link.
We are Born in Flames: An Interview with Lizzie Borden, Notebook, 14 June 2021, link.
A profile of Shirley Clark, BFI Online, 2021, link.
Nigel Waymouth, Psychedelic Artist, Tells His London Story, Time Out, 10 October 2019, link.
Punk is the word on the door: An interview with Jem Cohen, i-D, 11 May 2015, link.
Peter Strickland on his obsessive compulsive lens, i-D, 31 March 2015, link.
Psychedelia: An Interview with Anthony Stern, AnOther Man, Spring/Summer 2017, 156-159.
Welcome Cosmic Visions: An interview with Nigel Waymouth, Shindig! Issue 38, pp. 52-59.
Rock, roll, and 20,000 Days on Earth with Nick Cave, i-D, 29 September 2014, link.
Remember When Today Was Tomorrow: In the Studio with John Dunbar, i-D, 5 November 2014, link.
Cosmonauts of Inner Space: An interview with curator Lars Bang Larsen, Sleek, 23 October 2013, link.
Book Reviews and Early Writing
A Year in the Country: Cathode Ray & Celluloid Hinterlands, Sight & Sound, December 2022.
Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping, Sight & Sound, Winter 2022-2023.
After Dark: A Forgotten Night of Hedonistic Excess Steps into the Light, Elephant, 22 May 2022, link. On Ithell Colquhoun’s Bonsoir.
Letters From America that Deliver Small Events and Large Emotions, Elephant, 13 February 2022, link. On Adolfas and Jonas Mekas’s Letters Home.
Punk? Feminist? Surrealist? This 50-Year-Old Book Still Refuses to Be Labelled, Elephant, 16 January 2022, link.
Ahead of the Pack: Why Is Tarot Suddenly Such a Big Deal? Elephant, 21 July 2022, link.
Molten Meteors and Dirty Icecream: Lynda Benglis at the Hepworth Wakefield, Sleek, 9 February 2015, link.
The Sound of Science: Bjork Biophilia, i-D, 15 October, link.
Dread is a bad memory of the future, Sleek, 30 September 2013, link.
Inside the secret fantasy rooms of a Japanese love hotel, i-D, 16 September 2014, link.
Barbara Hammer: The Fearless Frame, Wonderland, 20 February 2012, link.