INVITED TALKS

3-ACT Magazine
Cinema in Transition
Online: Yangon, Myanmar
1 April
2023

Open Up
Stories of Shifts
Online: Nicosia, Cyprus
2 March
2023

WIELS
Look Who's Talking: Julian Ross
Brussels, Belgium
30 November
2022

Eye Filmmuseum
Symposium: Programmers of the Future
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
19 September
2022

Sandberg Instituut
MA Studio of Immediate Spaces
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
19 April
2022

Eye Collection Centre
ACPA Research Group: Moving Images: Preservation, Curation, Exhibition
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
11 March
2022

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions
with May Adadol Ingawanij and Hiroko Tasaka
Online (video here)
8 February
2022

Collaborative Cataloging Japan
Interrogating Ecology: 1970s Media and Art in Japan
Online
2-12 December
2021

Tallinn Photomonth Biennale
Tallinn, Estonia
24 September
2021

Columbia University
Symposium: Expanded Cinema and Intermedia in Postwar Japan
Cancelled due to covid-19
New York, USA
4 April
2020

M+
Curatorial Workshop: Experimental Animation
Hong Kong
10-11 January
2019

Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art
Public talk: Sogetsu Art Centre- Japanese experimental film
Gdansk, Poland
7 February
2019

Eye Filmmuseum
Public talk: dumb type and extended introduction
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
As part of the exhibition Ryoji Ikeda
2 October
2018

Tokyo Photographic Arts Museum
Symposium: Invisibility, Intermedia, Expanded - the Possibilities of Cinema
Tokyo, Japan
9 October
2017

New York University
Workshop: 1960s Japanese Expanded Cinema
New York, USA
10 March
2017

University of Edinburgh
Workshop: The Intermedial Avant-gardes
Edinburgh, Sctoland
24 February
2017

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art
Talk series: Moving Image Curation and Practice
Taichung, Taiwan
13 October
2016

Los Otros
Public talk + screening
Manila, Philippines
16 October
2016

Asia Culture Centre
Symposium: Galaxy '67
Gwangju, South Korea
2016

University of Reading
Workshop: The Moving Form of Film
Reading, UK
2016

Meiji Gakuin University
Workshop and talk: 英国・オランダにおける日本映画の受容 —映画祭を中心に
Tokyo, Japan
18 May
2015

The Photographers' Gallery
Panel: The Slideshow Effect?
London, UK
15 January
2015

University of Westminster
Symposium: Globality in Artists' Film and Video
London, UK
12 November
2014

Asia Art Archive in America
Public talk: In & Out of Japan: Documenting Travels in Japanese Experimental Film
New York, USA
1 May
2014

Museum of Modern Art
C-MAP Seminar: Projection Installations in Japan, 1960s-1970s
New York, USA
30 April
2014

Tokyo University of the Arts
Seminar Series
Tokyo, Japan
8 May
2013

Keio University
Workshop: ARCMA Project: Media Arts Archive
Tokyo, Japapn
21 December
2012

National University of Singapore
Workshop: The Animate Image: Theorizing the Reproducible Image in Asia
Singapore
3-4 December
2012

University of Glasgow
Workshop: Japanese cinema
Glasgow, Scotland
7 September
2012

Tate Modern
Symposium: Shuji Terayama Film and Performance Retrospective
London, UK
Review in Artforum
23 March
2012

McGill University
Symposium: Visual Underground: Japanese Experimental Cinema of the Sixties
Montreal, Canada
16-18 September
2011

RMIT University
Symposium: Cinema and Intermediality
Melbourne, Australia
24 June
2011

IN CONVERSATION

ROZENSTRAAT–a rose is a rose is a rose
with Semâ Bekirović
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
28 July
2023

Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
with Taiki Sakpisit
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
26 January
2023

Batalha Centro de Cinema
with COUSIN Collective
Porto, Portugal
14 January
2023

CinemAsia at Home
with Jiao Zhao (on MISSING)
Online
27 December
2022

Eye Filmmuseum
with Naomi Kawase
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Video
17-18 December
2022

1646
with Su Hui-yu
Den Haag, the Netherlands
Podcast
8 December
2022

Unseen Amsterdam: Photo Fair
with Luo Yang
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
17 September
2022

Open City Documentary Festival
with Maryam Tafakory
Genesis Cinema
London, UK
9 September
2022

West
with Pierre Bismuth
Filmhuis Den Haag
Den Haag, the Netherlands
3 June
2022

De Brakke Grond
with Lisa Spilliaert
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
4 May
2022

Filmhuis Cavia
with Lisa Spilliaert
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
15 April
2022

Frames of Representation
with Ivan Markovic
ICA
London, UK
10 December
2020

Open City Documentary Festival
with Naomi Kawase
Curzon Soho
London, UK
9 September
2019

Corridor Project Space
with Basir Mahmood
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1 December
2018

IDFA
with Naomi Kawase
Eye Filmmuseum
Video documentation
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
18 November
2018

IDFA
with Kazuo Hara
Eye Filmmuseum
Video documentation
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
17 November
2018

London Korean Film Festival
with Park Jungbeom
Regent Street Cinema
London, UK
11 November
2018

Corridor Project Space
with Anastasija Pirozenko
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
11 October
2018

Open City Documentary Festival
with Kazuo Hara
Bertha Dochouse
Video documentation (also on Second Run Blu-ray/DVD Emperors' Naked Army Marches On)
London, UK
6 September
2018

Essay Film Festival
with Ya-Li Huang and George Clark
Birkbeck Instistute of Moving Image
London, UK
29 March
2017

Bozar Centre for Fine Arts
with Koyo Yamashita (Image Forum)
Screening: Between the Frames: Japanese Experimental Film: Prolific Years 1975-1980
Brussels, Belgium
10 February
2016

Art Cinema OFFoff
with Koyo Yamashita (Image Forum)
Ghent, Belgium
8 February
2016

Cracking the Frame Festival
with Randa Maroufi
Punt WG
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
20 May
2016

INTROS

Kriterion
Birth of a Nation (1997) | Modern Classics: Jonas Mekas
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
20 March
2023

e-flux
Screen as Psyche, or Intensities for Damaged Eyes: Selected Works by Toshio Matsumoto
Brooklyn, USA
13 September
2022

Schuur
Woman in the Dunes
Season: The Eyes of Myth
Haarlem, the Netherlands
7 September
2022

Institute of Contemporary Art
An Engineer's Assistant/On the Road: A Document
Open City Documentary Festival
London, UK
1 September
2022

Kino Rotterdam
IFFR Kino #38: Nobody Knows
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
3 March
2022

Eye Filmmuseum
Night and Fog in Japan
Season: Shochiku 100
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
15 February
2022

The Barbican
The Boxer
Japan Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival
London, UK
18 September
2021

ORGANISING

Online discussion: Takeover
e-flux
Speakers: May Adadol Ingawanij, Tiffany Sia, Riar Rizaldi and Sriwhana Spong
19 November
2022

ReCNTR
Leiden University
Co-directing with Francesco Ragazzi and Mark Westmoreland
Talk & Screening: Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner
Talk & Workshop: Hagit Keysar & Ariel Caine
Workshop: Multimodal futures
Work-in-progress workshop: Photo edition
Talk: Nathaniel Brunt
Work-in-progress Workshop
Talk: Neal White
Talk: Aymeric Mansoux
Talk & Workshop: Elizabeth Chin & Maria Molina Peiró
2022-23

Seminar: IFFR Sessions
Kunstinstituut Melly / International Film Festival Rotterdam
Co-convened with Peter van Hoof and Rachael Rakes
23-27 January
2020

Panel: Artists' Film in Asia
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Co-convened with Müge Demir
In collaboration with University of Westminster and Southeast Asia Cinema Research Network
Report on IFFR blog by Becca Voelcker
28 January
2019

Workshop: Asia through the Aperture #2
Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival & University of Westminster
London, UK
Co-convened with May Adadol Ingawanij and Sonali Joshi
18 September
2018

Symposium: Lav Diaz: Journeys
University of Westminster
London, UK
Co-convened with May Adadol Ingawanij and George Clark
4 March
2017

Symposium: Throwing Shadows: A Symposium on Japanese Expanded Cinema
University of Wesminster
London, UK
In collaboration with Tate Modern
25 January
2016

Panel: A Slideshow Effect?
The Photographers' Gallery
London, UK
Co-convened with Jelena Stojkovic
15 January
2015

Workshop: Japanese Cinema Revisited
Meiji Gakuin University
Tokyo, Japan
Co-convened with Ayako Saito and Mika Ko
In collaboration with National Film Centre
22 February
2013

Symposium: Art Theatre Guild of Japan: Spaces of Intercultural and Intermedial Cinema
Birkbeck, University of London
Co-convened with Oliver Dew
In collaboration with BFI and Close Up Film Centre
18 July
2011

Workshop: Breaking Boundaries: Alternative Approaches to Japanese Film
University of Leeds
Co-convened with Michael Smith
In collaboration with Leeds International Film Festival
Special issue on workshop published in journal Journal of Japanese & Korean Cinema
6 November
2010

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Leiden University
Conference: Engagements with the Contemporary: The Humanities in, on, and beyond Crises
1st annual conference for LUCAS Resaerch Cluster 'Modern and Contemporary'
Leiden, the Netherlands
26 October
2020

Linnaeus University
Conference: Symbiotic Cinema: Confluences Between Film and Other Media
Växjö, Sweden
6-8 September
2018

University of Amsterdam
Conference: NECS 2018
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
27-29 June
2018

Babeș-Bolyai University
Conference: Copy-Past: Revaluating History, Memory and Archive in Cinema
Cluj, Romania
18-19 May
2018

University of Reading
Conference: The Moving Form of Film: Exploring Intermediality as a Historiographic Method
Reading, UK
6-8 November
2017

Lancaster University
Symposium: Theatricality and the Arts
Lancaster, UK
23-24 September
2017

Humboldt University
Conference: Underground Adventures: Temporal Experimentation in Postwar Countercultures
Berlin, Germany
24-25 March
2017

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Conference: NECS 2017
Paris, France
28 June - 1 July
2017

University of Glasgow
Conference: 24th Screen Studies
Glasgow, Scotland
23-25 June
2017

University of Potsdam
Conference: NECS 2016
Potsdam, Germany
27-28 July
2016

University of Reading
Conference: BAFTSS 2016
Reading, UK
14-15 April
2016

Harvard University
Conference: ACLA
Cambridge, MA, USA
17-20 March
2016

Goethe University
Conference: 15th Kinema Club
As part of Nippon Connection Film Festival
Frankfurt, Germany
5-6 June
2015

Royal College of Art
Conference: 40th Association of Art Historians
London, UK
10-12 April
2014

Kansai University
Conference: Hyosho Bunkaron
Osaka, Japan
29-30 June
2013

UC Berkeley
Conference: Media Histories/Media Theories in East Asia
Berkeley, CA, USA
7-8 February
2012

University of Michigan
Conference: Histories of Film Theories in East Asia
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
27-30 September
2012

University of East Anglia
Conference: BAJS
Norwich, UK
6-7 September
2012

University of Vienna
Conference: 11th Kinema Club: Japanese Cinema Spaces and Film Environments
Vienna, Austria
25-27 November
2011

PUBLIC PANELS


Japan Foundation
Panel: What Makes Japanese Cinema Memorable?
Video
Online: London, UK
22 March
2024

Leiden Shorts
Panel: Is it really worth it?
Leiden, the Netherlands
15 September
2023

Japan Foundation
Panel: Has Japanese cinema always been evolving?
Video
Online: London, UK
30 March
2023

Lo schermo del l’arte
Panel: Between digital and physical space
Florence, Italy
10 November
2021

Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film Festival
The Barbican
London, UK
19 September
2021

e-flux
Panel: In Between White Cube, Black Box, and Online Screens: Curation and Exhibition of Artists' Films
Online
17 September
2021

Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film
Singapore
4 July
2021

Tokyo International Film Festival / Tokyo FilmEx / Dokuritsu Eiganabe
Panel: インディペンデント映画の未来と映画祭
Online
Tokyo, Japan
3 November
2020

Halifax Independent Filmmakers' Festival
Panel: 2020 Programmer Initiative
Online
Halifax, Canada
14 November
2020

Nederlands Film Festival
Panel: HFM: Boat Session #1: ‘Are We Ready for the Greater World out There?’
Online
Utrecht, NL
26 September
2020

Open City Documentary Festival
Panel: Industry Bootcamp: The Festival Circuit
Online
Video documentation
London, UK
14 September
2020

Talking Shorts, Short Waves Festival & Glasgow Short Film Festival
Panel: Industry Talk: Let’s Get Critical
Online / Watch here
Poznań, Poland & Glasgow, Scotland
22 August
2020

Sarajevo Film Festival
Panel: Shorts in the Time of Corona
Online
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
17 August
2020

Europe on Screen
Panel: Film Festival Programming
Online
Jakarta, Indonesia
23 July
2020

Document Human Rights Film Festival
Panel: AKA Serial Killer
Scottish Youth Theatre
Glasgow, Scotland
2 December
2018

Japan Avant-Garde Experimental Film Festival
Panel: Tremors of the Japanese New Wave
The Barbican
London, UK
23 September
2018

Sarajevo Film Festival
Panel: Distribution Talk: Scouting Talent Today
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
14 August
2018

Vienna Shorts
Panel: Festival Academies: Stepping Stone or Last Straw?
Vienna, Austria
1 June
2018

Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
Panel: Fukeiron, or the Politics and Poetics of Landscape
As part of International Film Festival Rotterdam
with Claire Atherton, Eric Baudelaire and Aily Nash
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
29 January
2017

Woche de Kritik: Berlin Critics' Week
Panel: Breakout
Berlin, Germany
with Peaches
11 February
2017

S(8) Festival
Panel: Programmers' Meeting
A Coruña, Spain
5 June
2016

AV Festival
Panel: The Red Army Weekend
Tyneside Cinema
Newcastle, UK
with May Shigenobu and Michikazu Matsune
12-13 March
2016

Yamagata International DOcumentary Film Festival
Panel: DCP Projection of Independent Cinema
Yamagata, Japan
12 October
2015

Curtas Vila do Conde
Panel: Internationalization of the Short - Portuguese Films
Vila do Conde, Portugal
10 June
2015