Dundee & St Andrews, 2022

This programme, co-curated with Zhaoyu Zhu and Yixiang Shirley Lin explored the kaleidoscopic history of colour filmmaking across film cultures of the Chinese-speaking world, from the earliest colouring techniques of the silent era to more recent digital innovations. Screenings included a special 35mm presentation of Cave of the Silken Web / Pan Si Dong / 盘丝洞 (1927) with a new score performed live by composer Aurora Engine. Full details of all screenings can be found here.

Yale University, 2017

Curated in collaboration with Yale’s Film Studies faculty, the 13th annual Yale European Cinema Conference at the Whitney Humanities Center featured 35mm, 16mm and digital restorations of films from across Europe made in 1951, including works by Edith Carlmar, Margaret Tait and Jacqueline Audry among others. Full details can be found here.

Yale Film Archive, 2015

Curated in collaboration with the Yale Film Colloquium this series included presentations on 16mm, 35mm and VHS, many from the Yale Film Archive, including Cindy Sherman’s Office Killer (1997). Full details of all screenings and an interview with me about the programme can be found here. You can download a copy of the poster here.

Yale Centre for British Art, 2016

This series explored critical links between color and British identity, examining how filmmakers deployed color to explore themes of imperialism, sexuality and racial difference, throughout the twentieth century. Special screenings included a 35mm presentation of Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) and a newly written score for The Great White Silence (1924) performed live by composer Molly Joyce. You can download the full programme here.

Between 2009 and 2015 I co-curated this short film night with Chloë Roddick. The premise was simple: we only screened films rejected by other festivals. We curated strands for British film festivals including The London Short Film Festival (which you can read about in Sight & Sound), Flatpack Film Festival and East End Film Festival and held stand alone events in London (at The Cineroleum and Shortwave Cinema) as well as New York (at Videology and Jack Chiles Gallery). Our original website is here, which includes press coverage of our events.