Recent work
‘The Avant-Garde Archive Online’ in Film Quarterly, Vol 63, No 1, Fall 2009 [pdf]
Winstanley on Screenonline.
‘Found Sound, Cinema Without Cinema’, review of London Film Festival Artists’ Film and Video weekend, in Film Quarterly, Vol 62, No 3, Spring 2009.
‘Online Documentary’ chapter in Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives and Practices, eds Thomas Austin, Wilma de Jong, Open University Press, 2008
The Downloads column, surveying moving image on the web, appeared in Sight & Sound between April 2007 and July 2008. Aimed at the magazine’s film-literate audience, each column explored a theme or area of online moving image.
Screenonline
The British Film Institute’s Screenonline is an online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Archive, supplemented by specially commissioned contextual material.
Film: Robinson in Space / Gallivant / London / Là Bas / Smart Alek / The Clouds / Radio On / Who Cares / Housing Problems
Television: A Very British Coup / A Very Peculiar Practice / Life in a Scotch Sitting Room / Martington Crescent International World Cup / Rentaghost / Citizen Smith
Social History: Housing
DVD sleeve notes
Notes on Food for a Blush (1959) in the BFI’s Free Cinema compilation DVD
Notes on Housing Problems (from Screeonline, above) on Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930 – 1950 compilation DVD
Other articles
‘All the world’s a film set’ in Sight & Sound, November 2006.
Houses of Memory and London’s Orbital Motorway (Iain Sinclair’s George Orwell lecture at Senate House, Birkbeck) on Mute Magazine’s metamute website, February 2002
‘Stand aside, let the public sector through, in New Media Creative, June 2001.
‘Culture vs Commerce’ in Sight & Sound, December 2000
‘Playing without paying‘, Electronics Times, Nov 20, 2000
‘Thieves Like Us‘, Sight & Sound, October 2000.
‘Software Hardcore’ uncredited editorial in Sight & Sound, April 2000
A Very Peculiar Practice and Michael Moore’s TV Nation in
100 Greatest British Television Programs, 2000.
In person
The Sidney Street Siege on Film: An Archive Special, National Film Theatre, July 2004. Co-presented with Bryony Dixon of the NFTVA, an evening of archive film of, and inspired by, the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street.
As ‘digital media commentator’ on ‘Surf Pirates’ segment of Click Online on BBC Worldwide, 2001.
