Matt Turner is a film, arts, and culture writer, editor, and researcher from London, UK.

Recently: a newsletter on The Vanishing Point and Past Present Continuous; Notebook Issue 8; a column on FMV games with Sam Barlow and Natalie Watson.

Currently: managing editor of MUBI’s Notebook magazine and Notebook Special; sending nonlinearities and lend me ur eyes; working intermittently on freelance projects.

Previously: marketing manager at Open City Documentary Festival and founding editor of Non-Fiction; editing publications for Sheffield DocFest; creating newsletters with Sentient.Art.Film.

Contact me for any commissions, collaborations, or just to say hello.

Notepad (last updated: 5 January, 2026)

To watch: Jocelyn Saab, Alain Tanner

To read: Working (Studs Terkel), The War For Gloria (Atticus Lish), Underworld (Don DeLillo)

To play: NieR: Automata (PS4), Bloodborne (PS4)

Of interest:

• Wild London (television programme)

• “Astral Travelling with Tim Sweeney’s Beats in Space” (article)

• “Inside Gilles Peterson’s Three-Level Listening House” (article)