2024

11 - 15 September
I am a member of the selection committee for this year's edition of Villa Medici Film Festival. More info here.

27 June - 2 July
May Adadol Ingawanij and I are co-curating Flaherty Seminar 2024 at Thai Film Archive in Salaya, Thailand, on the theme of "To Commune." More info here.

14 June - 9 August
Ann Adachi-Tasch, Go Hirasawa and I are co-curating the group exhibition 'Community of Image: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the U.S. 1960s-70s' at Art Alliance, Philadelphia, which will include restoration projects supported by the Pew Foundation Grant and Andy Warhol Foundation Grant. More info here.

22 March
I was on the Shorts Competition jury for Movies That Matter, Den Haag. More info here.

22 March
I was a speaker on the roundtable discussion 'What makes Japanese cinema memorable?' organised by the Japan Foundation London to coincide with their Touring Film Programme 2024. Watch the video recording here.

5 March
Canal++ curated Shapeshifts, a programme including works by Shambhavi Kaul and Bo Wang, as part of Sonic Acts Biennale 2024 at Eye Filmmuseum. More info here.

22 February - 7 March
I co-programmed Doc Fortnight 2024 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, with MoMA's Associate Curator of Film, Sophie Cavoulacos. Browse the programme here.

26 January
I contributed my text 'Mismatch' to Yu Araki's exhibition catalogue Lonely Planets (Film Art Sha). More info here.

20 January - 20 May
ReCNTR, where I'm co-director, is co-presenting a number of events at the Eye Filmmuseum during their exhibition Paravel & Castaing-Taylor: Cosmic Realism.
On 12 March, we're co-presenting a talk by J.P. Sniadecki, which will be followed by a conversation with our co-director Cristiana Strava, and a screening of his films El Mar la Mar and Foreign Parts (info here).
On 26 March, our co-director Mark Westmoreland will give an introductory talk for a screening of Leviathan (info here).
On 23 April, we've invited Andrew Littlejohn (Leiden University) to give a talk on sonic ethnography, followed by an online conversation with Ernst Karel, and a screening of Expedition Content and Dead Birds (info here).

2023

21 November
Our screening collective Canal++ returned with a collaboration with Eye Filmmuseum for a screening with Christopher Harris, which was part of their ongoing series Eye on Art and their series Sweet 16, celebrating the 100th anniversary of 16mm film. More info here.

8-19 November
I was film program advisor at the 37th edition of IDFA, the documentary festival in Amsterdam. During the festival, I was in conversation with Kaori Oda (Gama) at Eye Filmmuseum, and moderated Q&As with Mustafa Uzuner (La cancha) and Elene Asatiani & Soso Dumbadze (Limitation). I participated in podcast episodes Docs in Orbit and The Last Thing I Saw where I discussed films and recapped the events that took place during the festival edition.

5 November
I presented a short film programme in response to Kristina Benjocki's exhibition The Warp and Weft of History at Looiersgrahct 60, Amsterdam, and specifically her latest film installation co-directed by Stijn Verhoeff. The programme will include works by Joshua Gen Solondz, Maryam Tafakory and Sylvia Schedelbauer. More info here.

16 October
I introduced a screening of Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, 1975) at Kriterion, Amsterdam, as part of their Pelikulang Pinoy film season. More info here.

13 October
Viennale announced this year's festival programme: I wrote a few catalogue texts for their this year - Dearest Fiona, The Grave's Sky, and Trouble. Browse here.

29 September - 26 November
I contributed a short text for Anja Dornieden (OJOBOCA)'s Print Analysis, which was on view alongside the projection of their work at the group show Goldrausch 2023 – on the edge of at galerie weisser elefant, Berlin. More info here.

26 September - 1 October
I was on the jury for the international feature film competition at Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival. More info here.

19 September
My career-spanning interview with Ryusuke Hamaguchi was published in the latest issue of Extra Extra Magazine. Order here.

15 September
I was on the panel 'Is it really worth it? Reimainging Leiden Shorts' at Leiden Shorts. More info here.

18 August
The Flaherty Seminar announced that May Adadol Ingawanij and I will be co-programmers of the 69th Flaherty Seminar in 2024, with our theme To Commune. More info here.

28 July
I was in conversation with Semâ Bekirović at ROZENSTRAAT – a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam, on 28 July, where we presented a screening of Come to Me, Paradise by Stephanie Comilang. More info here.

4 July
I was on the graduation commmittee for VAV-Moving Image at Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

30 June - 3 July
I moderated a panel discussion with students of the MA Artistic Research in and through Cinema programme at the Netherlands Film Academy, which took place on 2 July, Eye Filmmuseum. More info here. I also conducted workshops and rehearsals to prepare them for their Artistic Research Week. which is their graduation presentation.

21-23 June
I was co-organiser for the ReCNTR symposium Interstitial Infrastructures where interdisciplinary research centres and research-driven arts organisations were brought together. As part of the symposium, I was in conversation with Lonnie van Brummelen after a screening of her film Episode of the Sea.

21 June
I organised the talk 'Archiceture is Climate', an informal conversation led by Becca Voelcker (Goldsmiths/Central St. Martins) for the LUCAS research theme group Envirionmental Humanities, Leiden University.

19-21 June
I was co-organiser for the RMeS Summer School 2023: Imagophilia: Politics, Place, Passion at Leiden University, for which I invited Becca Voelcker for a keynote presentation and Riar Rizaldi, belit sag, Hsu Che-Yu and Chen Wan-Yin for artist presentations at Kijkhuis, Leiden. More info here.

2 June
Av-arkki, the Centre for Finnish Media Art, announced that I will be visiting curator for their next distribution catalogue. More info here.

19 May
I was in conversation with artist Roberto Taroni and editor Flora Pitrolo on their book launch event at Eye Collection Centre, Amsterdam, together with Simona Monizza. The event was organised by ASCA research group Moving Images: Preservation, Curation, Exhibition.

10-11 May
I co-organised a ReCNTR event with Sabine Groenewegen and Riar Rizaldi, which took place at Filmhuis Den Haag with a screening in collaboration with Glued & Screwed, which was followed by presentations on recent projects by both artists at KITLV, Leiden University, with Rachael Rakes and Jo-Lene Ong as respondents, moderated by Ward Berenschot. See more info here.

28 April
I contributed a book chapter to the edited collection The Moving Form of Film (Oxford University Press), edited by Lucia Nagib and Stefan Solomon, on the carousel slide projector and intermediality. See more info here.

11 April
I joined IDFA as film program advisor.

1 April
I was a speaker and mentor for the Cinema in Transition project organised by 3-ACT Magazine based in Yangon, Myanmar, funded by the British Council Connections Through Culture grant 2023.

31 March
I gave a guest class on essay films with Erik Viskil for the Eindhoven Design Academy, and screened works by Nguyen Trinh Thi, Riar Rizaldi and Yuyan Wang to the students.

30 March
I was a speaker on the roundtable discussion 'Has Japanese cinema always been evolving?' organised by the Japan Foundation to coincide with their Touring Film Programme 2023. Watch the video recording here.

28-29 March
ReCNTR organised a screening and talk with artist Jumana Emil Abboud, in collaboration with curator Nat Muller. The screening was a co-presentation with LIMA and ArteEast and took place at LAB 111, Amsterdam. More info here. The talk took place at Schouwburgstraat Building, the Hague campus Leiden University, with Nat Muller and Cristiana Strava as respondents.

20 March
I gave an intro to the screening of Birth of a Nation (1997) at Kriterion, Amsterdam, as part of their Jonas Mekas season. See more info here.

6 March
My ballot for the 2022 Sight & Sound 'the greatest films of all time' poll were published on their website. You can take a look at my votes here. I also contributed to their April 2023 issue 'Hidden Gems' with a short text on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Mouth to Mouth (1975), which was one of my choices. Read here.

22 February - 5 March
I was consulting curator for The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and I co-organised Doc Fortnight 2023 with Sophie Cavoulacos. Browse the programme here.

2 March
I was a speaker for the Stories of Shifts workshop organised as part of the EU programme Open Up, which took place at the art centre Nimac in Nicosia, Cyprus.

21 February
I made English subtitles for the latest film by Masao Adachi, Revolution+1, which will have its international premiere at Berlin Critics' Week. I also translated their interview with Adachi, which you can read here.

15 February
I coordinated Time Tunnel: Takahiko Iimura at Kino Arsenal, 18 April 1973' for Berlinale Forum Expanded at the 73rd Berlinale. In this presentation that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Iimura's video screening, several video works have been identified and digitised by VC Tokyo. Ulrich Ziemons and I had a conversation about the project (listen here) and I wrote an article on Iimura's 1973-74 stay in Berlin for the Arsenal website (read here).

26 January
I was in conversation with Taiki Sakpisit for a screening of his film The Edge of Daybreak at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. More info here.

24 January
I co-wrote the article 'Faraway, So Close! A Journey Through Germany' with Pan Lu and Bo Wang for MUBI's print publication Notebook issue 2. The conversation is "a conversation between friends and collaborators on a summer tour through prominent art exhibitions', and includes thoughts on documenta fifteen, Berlin Biennale, No Master Territories at HKW and Fujiko Nakaya and Tony Cokes exhibitions at Haus der Kunst. Order here.

24-26 January
I was an examiner for the MA Artistic Research in and through Cinema course (2nd years) at the Netherlands Film Academy.

14 January
I was in conversation with members of COUSIN collective at Batalha Centre, Porto. More info here.

14 January
I wrote a book review on the edited collection Asia Video Cultures for Bioscope journal. You can read it here.

9 January
I wrote an article on IDFA on Stage at IDFA 2022 for Film Comment. You can read it here.

2022

29 December
I was in conversation with Jia Zhao, artistic director of CinemAsia, about the festival's 2022 competition winner Missing for their newly launched streaming platform CinemAsia at Home.

20-22 December
I was an examiner for the MA Artistic Research in and through Cinema (1st years) at the Netherlands Film Academy.

16-17 December
I was in conversation with and an interpreter for Naomi Kawase at Eye Filmmuseum, as part of their programme Missing Pictures, where she will discuss her VR project Oh Debu and introduce her films The Mourning Forest and True Mothers. Watch the video here.

8 December
I was in conversation with artist Su Hui-yu at 1646, Den Haag, where he is an artist-in-residence. More info here. Listen to our conversation here.

7 December
I was a discussant for the online book launch of the book Towards an Intermedial history of Brazilian cinema (Edinburgh University Press) in an event orgaised by Cinelimite.

30 November
I gave a Look Who's Talking exhibition tour of the Shimabuku exhibition at WIELS, Brussels. More info here.

24 November
I joined Nicolas Rapold on his podcast The Last Thing I Saw to discuss IDFA 2022. Listen here.

23 November
As part of both ReCNTR and Canal++, I am co-organising a screening of Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner's film Constant, together with works from the LIMA collection, in a screening co-presented with LIMA and in the presence of both artists at LAB 111, Amsterdam.

19 November
I organised and participated in the e-flux panel on my online programme Takeover, which was moderated by May Adadol Ingawanij and featured artists Riar Rizaldi, Tiffany Sia and Sriwhana Spong. Listen or watch here.

29 October
I'll be in conversation with Masao Adachi and Go Hirasawa for an online talk for Collaborative Cataloging Japan.

28 October
I co-wrote 'Animistic Apparatus: A Gathering' with May Adadol Ingawanij, with contributions from Animistic Apparatus participating artists Félix Blume, Lucy Davis and the Migrant Ecologies Project, Rei Hayama, Sim Hoi Ling, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Juanita Onzaga, Truong Minh Quý, Taiki Sakpisit, Cristian Tablazon, Zai Tang, Fereshteh Toosi, and John Torres, for World Records journal, issue 7, which was edited by Counter Encounters. You can read the article, which includes video, sound and photographic work, here.

12-16 October
I'll be on the jury for the international competition at Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris.

7 October
I gave a presentation in the Critical Writing Workshop as part of Sonic Acts Biennial.

30 September
I was on an online panel Professional Life Stories organised by the University of Warsaw.

22 September - 15 December
I curated the six-part film series Takeover for e-flux Video & Film online. More info here.

19 September
I gave a presentation and participated in a panel in the Symposium: Programmers of the Future at Eye Filmmuseum.

17 September
I was in conversation with photographer Luo Yang at Unseen Amsterdam: Photography Fair.

13 September
I gave a (video) introductionto a screening of Toshio Matsumoto's short films at e-flux Screening Room, New York.

9 September
I took part in the Tsuchimoto Study Day at Birkbeck University of London, organised as part of the Open City Documentary Festival, as a respondent to Marcos Centeno's presentation.

9 September
I was in conversation with Maryam Tafakory for a screening of her works Unspoken Words at the Genesis Cinema, London, as part of Open City Documentary Festival.

8 September
I wrote the article 'Screen Time: Takahiko Iimura (1937-2022)' for Film Comment. You can read it here.

7 September
I contributed a book chapter to the volume A Companion to Experimental Cinema, edited by Federico Windhausen. The chapter is on Ankoku Butoh's Hijikata Tatsumi and 1960-70s Japanese experimental films.

7 September
I introduced the film Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara Hiroshi, 1964) at Schuur, Haarlem, which is part of the film season The Eyes of Myths.

1 September
I introduced the screening of Tsuchimoto Noriaki's On the Road: A Document and Engineers' Assistant at the ICA, London, which is co-presented by Open City Documentary Festival.

11 June
I was on the jury for the VERS Film Awards at LAB 111.

3 June
I was in conversation with Pierre Bismuth at Filmhuis Den Haag after a screening of his film Where is Rock II? organised by West Den Haag to coincide with his solo show Everybody is an artist, but only the artist knows it.

4 May
I was in conversation with Lisa Spilliaert at the closing event of her exhibition Growth Record at De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam.

28 April - 8 May
I was on the Silvestre short film jury at IndieLisboa.

22 April - 19 June
Animistic Apparatus is part of the exhibition Perfect Nature at Zone2Source, Amsterdam. We are presenting a work by Riar Rizaldi and Pam Virada at the Oranjerie in Amstelpark and will present a screening of works by Riar Rizaldi, Pam Virada, Shireen Senno, Rei Hayama and Zai Tang on 9 June. More details here.

19 April
I presented a talk and workshop at Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, for the students of the Studio of Immediate Spaces. My talk was on expanded cinema in 1960-70s Japan and my workshop asked the students to imagine a researcher (i.e. me) ask them a bunch of questions in 2072 in order to preserve and exhibit their work.

15 April
I was in conversation with Lisa Spilliaert for a screening of her film N.P (2020) at Filmhuis Cavia, which was co-presented by De Brakke Grond as part of her solo exhibition Growth Record. More details here

6-30 April
I curated the film programme Land Marks which was presented as a looped presentation at Le Plaza Cinema in Geneva, Switzerland. The programme is about nature, humans and measurement and includes works by Tijmen Hauer, David Hall, Minjung Kim, Chris Kennedy, Julia Feyrer, Klaas Kloosterboer, Han Okhi, Charles Lim and Lukas Marxt. More details here.

24-25 March
As a founding co-director, I was involved in launching ReCNTR, a new interdisciplinary research centre at Leiden University. Our launch event involved talks by Elizabeth Chin and María Molina Peiró and a making workshop led by Elizabeth Chin.

23 March - 4 April
I was on the DOX:Award main competition jury at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, Denmark. Further details here.

17-22 March
I participated in Ecological Futurisms' launch event as a co-curator for Animistic Apparatus and helped out with the Solidarity Programmes: Artists' Moving Image from Ukraine and Myanmar. Further details here.

11 March
I presented my research on Japanese expanded cinema and the preservation/presentation activities I've been involved with together with Collaborative Cataloging Japan at the Eye Collection Centre for the ACPA research group Moving Images: Preservation, Curation, Exhibition. More details here.

3 March
I gave an intro to the film Nobody Knows (Kore-eda, 2004) at Kino Rotterdam, a screening that launches the seventh season of IFFR/KINO. More details here.

4-20 February
Animistic Apparatus was presented at the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. The programme included films by Shambhavi Kaul, Juanita Onzaga, Riar Rizaldi, Pathompon Mont Tesprateep, Truong Minh Quý + Freddy Nadolny Poustochkine. May and I were in conversation (online) with festival director Hiroko Tasaka on 4 February. Further details here.

16 February
I presented a lecture for the ASV Prometheus student cultural association of Leiden University on 1960s Japanese discotheques.

15 Feb
I gave an extended introduction to Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima, 1960, 35mm) at Cinema 1 in Eye Filmmuseum. The screening is part of their Shochiku 100 season. More details here.

8 Feb
I gave a guest class on my research on Japanese expanded cinema at Artioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA, as part of their course Interdisciplinary Studio: The Happening.

26 January - 6 February
International Film Festival Rotterdam. As a Programmer at the festival, I was involved in the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition, the section Short & Mid-Length, and feature film selections for films from Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.

2021

2-12 December
I took part in the workshop Interrogating Ecology: 1970s Media and Art in Japan, organised by Collaborative Cataloging Japan, where I presented on 'air art' and 1960-70s Japanese expanded cinema. Further details here.

6 December
I was invited to be the main respondent to a works-in-progress presentation organised by AEMI (Ireland, online).

3 December
I was invited by Sight & Sound to contribute to their annual poll of best films of the year. You can read my contribution and others here.

25 November - 5 December
I was guest programmer at Singapore International Film Festival where I co-programmed Domain: Collectives, a film series on film and art collectives, with Inge de Leeuw. I also was a guest speaker for their Youth Jury and Critics Programme. Further details on the programme here.

15 November
I gave a guest class for Breda University of Applied Sciences for their course Creative Producing. The class was about film festival programming.

10 November
I was a guest speaker at Lo schermo del l'arte in Florence for the mentoring session Between digital and physical space.

5-6 November
I was Film Curator for the interdisciplinary festival Other Futures, which took place at de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam. We invited Shambhavi Kaul, Anocha Suwichakornpong and Truong Minh Quy, and presented an Animistic Apparatus programme co-curated with May Adadol Ingawanij. For further details on the programme see here.

19 October
Netherlands Film Academy MA Artistic Research in and through Cinema graduation. Today marks the end of my time as mentor for this programme. I joined late 2019 and was a primary mentor for artists Abhay Kumar and Sarah Fernandez. During my time as mentor, I organised talks with Frank B. Wilderson III, Joshua Oppenheimer, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Filipa Cesar, Scott Cummings, Laura Huertas Millán, Damien Manivel and others.

10 October
Tallinn Photomonth Biennale. We presented the second of the two-part screening I co-curated with Len Murusalu, and included films by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Su-Chen Hung, Saodat Ismailova, Myriam Jacob-Allard, Piibe Kolka and Morgan Quaintance. For more details on the programme see here.

3 October
I co-curated the film programme All and Nothing for the closing event of the exhibition From Seeing to Acting at Looeirsgracht 60, curated by Radical Reversibility, with films by Ismaïl Bahri, Wang Yuyan and Makino Takashi. More on the programme here.

26 September
Tallinn Photomonth Biennale. We presented the first of theh two-part screening I co-curated with Len Murusalu, and included films by Miyai Rikuro, Tanaami Keiichi, Simon Liu, Anto Astudillo, Maryam Jafri, Kristina Norman and Mika Taanila. Len and I were in conversation with Kristina Norman and Mika Taanila. More on the programme here.

24 September
I gave a talk on 1960s Japanese expanded cinema and our preservation activities with Collaborative Cataloging Japan as part of Tallinn Photomonth Biennale and as a book launch for our CCJ book Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s. For more on the talk see here.

19 September
I was on a panel Japan's Cinematic Body at The Barbican as part of the Japan Avant-Garde & Experimental Film Festival with Lola Martinez, Jennifer Coats and Jasper Sharp. For more on the panel check here.

19 September
I was invited to join the podcast Celebrating Cinema by LAB111 to talk about Japanese cinema. Listen to the podcast here.

18 September
I introduced Shuji Terayama's Boxer (1977) at The Barbican as part of the Japan Avant-garde & Experimental Film Festival. More details here.

17 September
I was on an e-flux panel In Between White Cube, Black Box, and Online Screens: Curation and Exhibition of Artists' Films as part of their symposium The State of the Moving Image with Sophie Cavoulacos, Lars Henrik Gass, Chrissie Iles, Almudena Escobar López, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and moderated by Erika Balsom. Watch the panel here.

14 September
I co-curated a film screening for the Eye Filmmuseum with Go Hirasawa for our book launch for our CCJ book Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s. I presented it as a talk and screening with films by Tanaami Keiichi, Jonouchi Motoharu, Miyai Rikuro and Iimura Takahiko. For more on the programme see here.

13 September
I contributed a remote reading to the one-day event On Film Writing: Forms and Histories co-convened by Erika Balsom and Elena Gorfinkel for Open City Documentary Festival, London. For further details on the workshop see here.

15 July
I was a guest speaker for a film curating course convened by Aily Nash at Dartmouth College.

5-6 July
I was on the examination committee for the VAV Moving Image course at Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

4 July
I was a panelist for the Short Film Forum organised by Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore. I was on the panel with Fransiska Prihadi and Park Sungho. Read a recap of the panel here.

25 June
I gave a guest class on film programming at Nagoya University, Japan (online), invited by Ma Ran.

7-11 June
I gave a conference presentation on our activities preserving works of Japanese expanded cinema as part of our Collaborative Cataloging Japan's Expanded Cinema initiative at the conference Shifting Ecologies at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Further details on the conference here.

2-6 June
International Film Festival Rotterdam