LA folks, don't miss this Thursday's screening of short experimental films from India: 'Nation and its Fragments' co-curated by Sean Batton and me at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

The final episode of the podcast Animal-Vegetable-Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary is now out -- our conversation with the Moroccan film director Asmae El Moudir about her fascinating film "The Mother of All Lies." Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/43rH...

📣Here's the third episode of our podcast series "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary". Of the interviews for our series, this one is, in some sense, the closest to this podcast’s concerns about the relationship between documentary film and the world. Happy Listening!

The 3rd episode of "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary" features a fascinating interview with the Italian eco-filmmaker Michelangelo Frammartino. Check it out! @suninthebelly.bsky.social @alisalebow.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0E4K...

📣Friends, we are so excited to share episode two of our podcast "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary." Go give it a listen and do share your feedback!

The 2nd episode of "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary": open.spotify.com/episode/4JY8... featuring Alisa's interview with Deirdre Boyle on her new book about Rithy Panh, Cambodia's most important filmmaker. @alisalebow.bsky.social, @suninthebelly.bsky.social

Friends heading to SCMS Chicago, please come to our Friday morning panel "Videographic Approaches to Indian Cinema" organized by Neepa Majumdar, and with Anupama Prabhala, and Pavitra Sundar. Here's a little sneak peek on what I am presenting

Introducing 📣 Animal Vegetable Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary A series of four audio episodes that delve into some of the current themes and debates in the field of documentary studies. Co-produced by: @alisalebow.bsky.social @topiaryland.bsky.social, and me.

Congratulations to FTV’s Tiago de Luca and Chris O’Rourke, who are both shortlisted for the ‘Best Article or Chapter’ award for BAFTSS 2025.

Just announced: Block Cinema hosts an offsite screening of THE WAITING ROOM, Karen Sperling's dreamlike narrative feature shot inside a mental institution by a 53-woman crew in 1973 and never released. Filmmaker in attendance! Screening 4/3 at Abbott Hall in downtown Chicago. RSVP bit.ly/NUSperl

Out now… and in open access! It can be read and download here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

This Wednesday at University College London

Friends in London, I will be giving a talk titled " State-Sponsored Documentary Asks the Woman’s Question" at UCL on the 29th. Hope to see some familiar faces there. www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan...

Teaching a film history and methods module for non-major students this term. It is a peculiar challenge to get them interested in film history but also get them excited about historical methods. Welcoming suggestions on what readings people use. I will be sharing weekly what we are doing in class

Was missing some books and thought I would reread them, only to realize that we gave them away in the frenzy of scaling down during moving. It is that feeling of missing a friend whom you can no longer reach

If you are attending the Visible Evidence XXX conference, do come for our panel "De-centering Histories and Geographies: New Practices and Aesthetics in Indian Non-fiction". I am presenting online and now need to calculate how much caffeine I need to be alert at 5:00 am BST

tomorrow on my South Asian Cinema module

Topiary Landberg, @jmalitsky.bsky.social, and I just had our last meeting as elected members of the Visible Evidence Governing Council. Cheers to the incoming members Ilona Hongisto, Kim Munro, and Narmeen Ijaz and the exciting road ahead! www.visibleevidence.org/visible-evid...

Hooray! The new issue of Media + Environment is out! It's coedited by Priya Jaikumar and Lee Grieveson and is dedicated to media and extraction: mediaenviron.org/issue/11072

tell me you are an academic without telling me you are an academic

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

2023-24 brought most of the leading specialists on Satyajit Ray to Frankfurt. While in Frankfurt the speakers also participated in a research seminar entitled "Inida as method", which will soon come out as a book from meson.press/series-page/... satyajit-ray.de

Leaving this here for good vibes SRK in one word Made for @arielavissar.bsky.social and Vicente Rodríguez Ortega's Screen Stars Dictionary, Tecmerin, 2023. vimeo.com/875575478

One of my all time favourite video essays is on YouTube: Maryam Tafakory's 2020 work IRANI BAG. "Collating scenes of mediated intimacy in Iranian cinema, Maryam Tafakory's 'Irani Bag' is a quietly moving instruction on 'how to touch without touching'" [Essay Film Festival] youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...

Edith at attention