"I want to test, share, and develop ideas and take them beyond the academy." Becca Voelcker on her research and ambitions in her new role as one of this year's New Generation Thinkers gold.ac.uk/news/becca-voe…

Brilliant talk by Debashree on extractive media and plantation modernity UCL organised by Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (she/her) Can't wait for the book!

Book deal! My first book, Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction, is now under contract with University of California Press It explores the lives and works of 10 non-fiction filmmakers and film collectives in the 1970s and 80s who cultivated environmental justice in the face of capitalist extraction

If you're in Osaka on July 26, I'm talking about filmmaking and farming in Japan and Mali, drawing from my forthcoming University of California Press book, Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction. At National Museum of Ethnology 国立民族学博物館 国立民族学博物館 The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation itsushikawase.com/anthro-film_la…

Congratulations to Julia Alekseyeva 🌹 & Jen Coates for organising a brilliant Kinema Club conference this week, where I was honoured to speak about borders & boundaries alongside many scholar-cinéphiles including Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández Aaron Gerow Alastair Phillips Colleen Laird Jasper Sharp

Celebrating a decade-long documentary project in rural China by Mengqi Zhang: my contribution to Sight and Sound magazine BFI 's 21ST-CENTURY CINEMA SPECIAL, featuring new writing on 25 of the most significant films of the century. Out on Monday! buff.ly/3yY8OAx

Thank you Alyssa Matesic, as I edit my book MS! I'd add to No.1, reading aloud *and recording it to listen back* (even if only to delete the audio right after) The recording process helps me get more critical and is a bit like being on stage. If a sentence sounds silly, it's out!

Published this week, my BFI Sight and Sound magazine article nominating Zhang Mengqi's 2019 portrait of life, 47km from the city's limits, as one of the most significant docs of the past 25 yrs, is now available in Chinese via Caochangdi Workstation, Beijing mp.weixin.qq.com/s/0lsgEzCB0ojh…

If you're in Tokyo in late July, I'm giving a talk based on my forthcoming book, exploring what agri/cultural work can teach us about degrowth. Sophia University The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation

Moving images at Francis Alÿs' Barbican Centre show on children's play around the world, Ricochets. Despite - and often in mischievous, brave, or heartbreaking resistance to - geopolitical conflict, children play with whatever they have to hand.

ただいま! It's great to be back, and sharing new research on eco-political cinema from my forthcoming book, at Japan's National Museum of Ethnology. Thank you Itsushi Kawase at Minpaku The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation University of California Press

Thank you The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation for supporting my lecture and research trip to Japan, and to Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture for hosting a pre-book talk in which I shared a preview from chapter 2 on farmer-filmmakers in Japan and Mali... More soon!

Upcoming talk: I'll be introducing the political and environmental background to the original 1954 Godzilla, at Japan House London on 15 September. Book a free seat here japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/film-… Happy 70th birthday Gojira! GODZILLA.OFFICIAL