Research

In 2023 I completed a PhD in Film Studies (Audio-Visual) at the University of Birmingham, England: ‘Inhuman, all too Inhuman: Lyotard, Nihilism and Film’. This research was practice-led and sought to develop Jean-François Lyotard’s thinking, namely his notions of the inhuman, acinemas and the libidinal in the realm of film through an audio-visual methodology. The research consists of a portfolio of five films and a written thesis component. Such an approach to my research was essential, both in my engagement with Lyotard's ideas and his fight against systems of totalisation, and domination, be it imperialism, capital, the academy and his defence of difference and justice, but significantly allowed for the centering of my neurodivergent subjectivity. In turn, this research questioned the viability of film as a site of resistance against what Lyotard terms the inhuman, as well as its positioning in relation to the textual and film theory. Moreover, this work set out to examine audio-visual approaches for pedagogy, and in turn deterritorialise the boundaries of creative and artistic practice, philosophy and academic research. As well as film-philosophy, I have a particular interest in experimental cinema, the video-essay and the intersection of disability, queer and black film with genre and documentary cinema. I have lectured on film at The University of Birmingham and The University of Warwick, specialising in documentary film, the video-essay, modernism and film-philosophy.

​

My video-essay ''Who Speaks?': Possessing Lyotard' was published in the [In] Transition (Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 10.2, 2023).  

​

In 2021, my video-essay 'Documentary as Genre of Fiction' was named as one of best video-essays by the BFI and was nominated for a Learning on Screen Award in 2022.

In 2015 I completed an M.A in Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths College, the University of London with a particular focus on the relationship between literature, art, aesthetics and problematics of representation in the work of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin and Maurice Blanchot, culminating in my dissertation; 'Utopia in fragments: Art and Adorno's Negative Dialectics after Shoah' which explored Adorno's philosophy in relation to the work of Anselm Kiefer and Andrei Tarkovsky.