About me
I am a lecturer, researcher, and curator specialising in global and contemporary moving image practices. I teach on the BA (Hons) Film and the MA in Film, Television and Moving Image. My research explores the epistemic and decolonial potentialities of ecological practices in contemporary art and moving images from the Global South. I am interested in the relationship between images, ecology, and affect, as well as in the role of nature and the nonhuman in contemporary global cinema and moving image-based art, with a special focus on Latin America. I hold an MA in Cultural and Critical Studies and a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London. I also studied documentary filmmaking at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San António de los Baños, Cuba (Cuba’s International School of Film and TV). Before joining the University of Westminster, I held two postdoctoral research fellowships in Brazil. As a film programmer, I contribute to film festivals and screening seasons in Brazil and the UK.
Teaching
I am part of the teaching team for the BA (Hons) Film and for the MA in Film, Television and Moving Image. The modules I lead (and have led) include:
- Identities: Race, Class and Gender in Film and Television (BA Film)
- Cinemas of the World (BA Film)
- Cinema, Dreams and Fantasy (BA Film)
- Contemporary Issues in Moving Images and Screen Studies (MA Film, Television and Moving Images)
- Documentary Aesthetics, Sites and Spectatorship (MA Film, Television and Moving Images)
I supervise BA final year dissertations and MA final projects, as well as PhD projects. PhD researchers I currently supervise (as DoS and second supervisor) include:
Pamela Gomez Jimenez, An Indigenous gaze: looking through and envisioning contemporary Indigenous visual representations in the Andean region
Sofia Natalie Kynigopoulou, Becoming Plant of Moving Image Practice: Thinking with the Cyprus Buffer Zone
Jingru Hou, Presence and Emotion in Chinese Aging Narrative: Exploring a New Screen Grammar for 360-degree Documentaries
Henry Krempels, Cooperation via Contact: Val Plumwood’s Philosophical Animism as an Ontological Framework for Collaborative Performance Dialogues Between ‘Earth Others’
I am interested in PhD research proposals on cinemas of the Global South, decolonial moving image and artistic practices, ecological aesthetics, curatorial practices, and experimental/creative nonfiction.
Research
My theoretical and curatorial research explores the epistemic and decolonial potentialities of ecological practices in contemporary art and moving images from the Global South. I am interested in how artistic and filmmaking practices respond to climate emergency’s growing impact and challenge colonial, anthropocentric thinking. My recent curatorial projects include the exhibitions We live like trees inside the footsteps of our ancestors (Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, May-July 2023) and Liminal Ecologies: thresholds of transition and entanglement (Tranzit, Slovak Republic, March-July 2025).
My recent publications include the edited book We live like trees inside the footsteps of our ancestors (co-edited with M. Tsionki, K-Verlag, Berlin, 2025), which engages with a range of artistic practices from Latin America and conceptual frameworks engaging with ecological sensibilities, pedagogies, and knowledge systems that move away from Western-cantered and colonial notions of nature.
I have published articles and book chapters on the relationship between the body, affect, and trauma in relation to deterritorialised and postcolonial subjects, including articles on Pedro Costa, Carlos Reygadas, Karim Aïnouz, Claire Denis, and other contemporary filmmakers. My essays also explored nonfiction filmmaking and engaged with the works of Eduardo Coutinho and Vicent Carelli. I co-edited the volumes Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, with A. M. da Silva) and Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, with A. M. da Silva).
My recent writing focuses on the relationship between moving images, ecology, and more-than-human worlds.
Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.