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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

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