criticism
"Nina Menkes' Nocturnes: Dead Times, Sororal Dreams"
Cinematic Sorceress: The Films of Nina Menkes
Arbelos Blu-Ray Limited Edition, liner essay
January 2023
"Who's afraid of Doris Wishman?"
Artforum
September 12 2022
"weary of the screen: Lucy Clout's nocturnal thinking"
LUX Moving Image, exhibition essay
July 12 2022
"Portals of Deliquescence"
Second Run DVD, Luminous Procuress DVD liner essay
May 30 2022
"Regions of Eccentricity: Penny Allen's Property (1978)"
Architecture on Film, Architecture Foundation, London, programme notes, March 14 2022.
The Criterion Collection, Adoption DVD/Bluray liner essay
March 2022.
"Inland Empire by Melissa Anderson"
Sight & Sound March 2022 (print), 103.
On Eyes of Laura Mars, "Fatal Attraction: Women on the Serial Killer Films that Thrill Them"
Criterion Channel: The Current
17 November 2021.
"The Last Things Before the Last"
ed. Stanley Schtinter, w. Dominic Jaeckle + Jon Auman
London: Tenement Press, 2021, 321-30.
Frames of Representation Festival 2020: Spectatorship
Institute of Contemporary Arts London
27 November 2020.
Another Gaze, November 29 2019.
-Reprint in Spanish, La Rabia Cine, Dossier No. 5., trans. La Rabia Cine Collective, December 2022.
-Recording of 9 year old girl reading text, part of Important Books, (Or Manifestos Read by Children) project, Whitechapel Gallery, October 2021.
-Restaged as spatial intervention on a billboard by CineCollective at Kaleidoskop Film Festival in Karlsplatz, Vienna, June 30 2020.
-Reprint in Spanish, Girls At Film, trans. Rosalba Mackenzie.
-Reprint in Turkish, Eskop, trans. Ipek Gurkan.
-Reprint in Russian, "Против списков", trans. Dmitry Frolov.
Syg.ma, December 19 2019.
"Kira Muratova's Searing World"
catalogue essay, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival,
Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK. September 2019.
Republished in revised form for Kira Muratova season,
Close-Up Film Centre, London, UK October 2019.
“Polyester: The Perils of Francine”
The Criterion Collection, Polyester DVD/Bluray release essay,
September 2019.
“The Meeting of Two Queens: Doris Wishman and Peggy Ahwesh”
Cinema Scope 79, Summer 2019. 27-29.
"'To extend into the beyond': On Tsai Ming-liang's Late Digital Style"
Sight & Sound April 19, 2019.
“Madeline’s Madeline”
Sight & Sound, May 2019. 66-67.
"International Film Festival Rotterdam"
Art Monthly No. 425. April 2019, 40-41.
“Recalcitrant Objects, Carnal Subjects: On the Cinema of Nazli Dincel”
Programme Notes
Vertical Features, Toronto, Canada. February 12, 2019.
"Wide Angle: Always Here” (on Sky Hopinka)
Sight & Sound, February 2019. 18.
“Berwick Film and Media Art Festival 2018”
Art Monthly. No. 421, November 2018. 32-33.
Sight & Sound, October 2018. 62.
Programme notes, The Machine that Kills Bad People cineclub screening 1: Wanda
Institute of Contemporary Arts London, May 1, 2018.
-Reprint in translation in Danish, in Balthasar,
Volume 2, October 2018, print & online. ]
“Somnolent Screens” (on sleep and cinema)
Sight & Sound, Vol. 28, no. 6, June 2018. 14-15.
Sight & Sound, May 2018, 82-83. print & online.
“A Taste of Flesh” (on sexploitation cinema)
Sight & Sound. November 2017. 18-19.
“Getting it Done” (on Kevin Jerome Everson)
Sight & Sound, October 2017. 16-17.
Republished online as "Blackness, Labour & Place: The Radical Cinema of Kevin Jerome Everson," Sight & Sound, 13 November 2020.
“Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Victim and the Victimiser”
Sight & Sound, May 2017. 26.
“At the End of Cinema, This Thing Called Film” Curator's Programme Notes,
Light Spill by Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder
UWM Art History Gallery, January 27-February 10, 2011. (np)
-Reprint in LOLA, Issue 1 (Aug 2011);
-Reprint in Italian, “Alla Fine Del Cinema, Questa Cosa Chimata Film” trans. Alessandro Stellino, FILMIDEE, No. 3 (Fall 2011),
“Solitary Particles: The Wayward Cloud”
Electric Sheep (Spring 2009). 27-29.
“Cult Film, or Cinephilia by Any Other Name”
Cineaste Vol. 34, No. 1, (Winter 2008). 33-38.
“Between Flesh and Hardware”
with Nancy Nowacek
in ed. Steven Heller,
Sex Appeal: The Art and Allure of Graphic Design.
New York: Allworth Press, 2000.
“Geek Chic: How Nerds Stole the Idea of Fashion”
Merge, No.3, December 1998.
“Technologies of Undressing: The Digital Paper Dolls of KISS”
with Eric Zimmerman
ZED No. 5 (September 1998.) 26-37.
Originally published as “Kiss & Tell,”
with Eric Zimmerman,
21C, Issue No.1, Winter 1997;
-Reprint in Sex Appeal: The Art and Allure of Graphic Design,
ed. Steven Heller. New York: Allworth Press, 2000.