2026 --
Forthcoming
Streaming release of The Stimming Pool, September 2026
June 3, screening of The Stimming Pool, UCL East
February
Recipient, Wellcome Trust Discovery Award for Critical Seeing, a six-year project using film, ethnography and citizens' juries to create new representations and understandings of intensive care decision conflict.
February 5-8 - Oughtism, co-convenor of symposium at University of Toronto
2025 --
Nov
The Stimming Pool, winner BFI Chanel Award 2025
October 2025- March 2026, STIM CINEMA exhibition, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto
The Stimming Pool, UK theatrical release March-April 2025, distributed by Dartmouth Films.
The Stimming Pool and STIM CINEMA QMUL Research Innovation Award 2025, Honourable Mention
Link for The Stimming Pool cinema release and festival screenings
2024 --
The Stimming Pool, World premiere CPH:DOX. UK premiere 68th BFI London Film Festival. Other international festivals include: Camden (USA); DOXA (Can); Popolli, Winner, Youth Jury Award (Florence); IceDocs, Winner, Best Documentary (Iceland); Cork; Cambridge; Leeds; Folkestone; RIDM (Montreal); DMZ (South Korea); Melbourne (Aus); Sydney (Aus); Verizo (Hungary).
The Stimming Pool, Festival dei Popoli, Winner Youth Jury Award (2024);
The Interval and the Instant, Winner QMUL Impact Award (2024);
The Stimming Pool, IceDocs Iceland, Winner Best Documentary (2024)
STIM CINEMA multiscreen installation
Grundy Gallery Blackpool
28th September – 14th December 2024
Link for The Stimming Pool cinema release and festival screenings
2023 --
STIM CINEMA multiscreen installation
Nottingham Castle
Nov 25 2023 - April 2024
Private View
24 November 6.30pm (relaxed opening from 5.30pm)
June
Production, The Stimming Pool and STIM CINEMA
QMUL impact accelerator award, for The Stimming Pool
QMUL participatory research award, for The Stimming Pool
2022 --
Film London FLAMIN scheme award for STIM CINEMA
Arts Council England award for STIM CINEMA
2021 --
Wellcome Trust public engagement award for Autism Through Cinema (with Prof. Janet Harbord))
Research England bid awarded for QMUL BLOC Cinema Laboratory (£1.4 million);
2020 --
2019 --
ISLAND screenings:
January 4 – 9 Newcastle – Tyneside Cinema
February 28 – London – Whitechapel Gallery + Q&A
The Interval and the Instant, part of 'Take Care,' La Ferme du Buisson, Paris, March 3-July 19
November, ISLAND released on VOD
2018 --
ISLAND screenings:
27 January – 1 February 2018 – International Film Festival Rotterdam – International Premiere
February 12- March 12
The Interval and the Instant, Take Care group show, Blackwood Gallery Toronto
February
Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award awarded for Autism through Cinema
ISLAND screenings:
March 7th special preview, Barts Pathology Museum
19 May 2018 – Festival of Ideas – Bristol Watershed
September 8 – Isle of Wight – Ventnor Arts Club
September 9 – Isle of Wight – Quay Arts
September 10-19 – London – Picturehouse Central
September 15-17 – London – DocHouse
September 17 – Manchester – Home
September 18 – Newcastle – Tyneside Cinema
September 30 – Dublin – Irish Film Institute
October 1 – London Genesis
October 5 – Stirling – Macrobert Arts Centre (Central Scotland Doc Fest)
October 8 – October 11 – Bristol – Watershed Cinema
October 9 – Bridport Film Society
October 19 – Southampton – Harbour Lights Picturehouse
October 21 – Birmingham – Screening Rights at MAC
November 2 – Ventnor Arts Club, Isle of Wight
November 5 – Freshwater Library, Isle of Wight
November 9 – London – Das Kino Club
November 11 – Halifax – Square Chapel Arts Centre
November 14 – Portsmouth Film Society
November 13 – 15 – Leicester – Phoenix Cinema
November 26 – Edinburgh – Scottish Documentary Institute masterclass
November 26 – Edinburgh – Cameo Cinema + Q&A
November 30 – Document Human Rights Film Festival, Glasgow + Q&A
November 30 – LUSH, London + Q&A
December 3 – Sherborne Cinema, Gloucester
December 4 – Curzon Goldsmiths + Q&A
2017 --
October 7
World premiere, ISLAND
61st BFI London Film Festival
October 7 - November 26
The Interval and the Instant
Fabrica, Brighton's Centre for Contemporary Art
July 4-6
About the Island
Film Philosophy Conference
Lancaster University
http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/index.php/conf/FP2017
March 15th
The Interval and the Instant
The Centre for Film and Ethics
Queen Mary University
RSVP Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-interval-and-the-instant-tickets-32255702675
February 1st
Artist's Talk, Island, Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London
January 24th
Images of Care and Dying with Drs Stephen Barclay and Steven Eastwood
The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
(CRASSH)
Cambridge University
2016 --
November
The Interval and the Instant: Inscribing Death and Dying, in MIRAJ, Volume 5, issues 1-2 (Ed Catherine Elwes)
Media Appearances/Journalism (select)
Nov 2024, The Stimming Pool feature on Channel Four News in a four-minute section devoted to the film
Nov 2024 article in The Hollywood Reporter on The Stimming Pool
October 2017, appearance on BBC Breakfast (4 million viewers) in a five-minute section devoted to ISLAND
Authored article for the Independent, shared 2.4k times in 24 hours
ISLAND 5 star review in The Sunday Times, 4 star review in The Guardian (sept 2018)
ISLAND review in The Lancet, Dec 2017.
April 2010, ABC News (NY, USA), discussing Buried Land