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

Recently: Notebook Issue 7 and the 2025 Notebook Special; a newsletter on Debut and In the Manner of Smoke; a video essay on in-game protest and performance.

Currently: a 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: 24 June, 2025)

To watch: Alan Rudolph, Jocelyn Saab, Franco Piavoli

To read: Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer), In the Country of Last Things (Paul Auster), Ways of Seeing (John Berger)

To play: Uncharted 4 (PS4), despelote (Steam Deck), Catalog Season 2 (Playdate)

Of interest:

• Klein: No Degree, No Budget, No Problem (lecture)

• “What actually improves your photos” (article)

• 032c’s “ABC of AFX” (article)