Matt Lloyd Turner
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about

Tale of Cinema is a space to collect the film writings, short films, curatorial projects and other digital miscellanea of one Matt Turner, me. it is also the sixth film from a certain director, Hong Sang-soo, who may or may not be a favourite.

Articles have appeared in print and online at: Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, MUBI Notebook, Variety, Indiewire, Art-Agenda, Bomb Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, The Calvert Journal, Documentary Magazine, Senses of Cinema, Millennium Film Journal, Kinoscope, Festivalists, Pardo Live and DISPATCH Feminist Moving Image.

Booklet essays for: Frames of Representation 2017/2018, Edge of Frame Weekender 2018, London East Asian Film estival 2018.

Selected for the Locarno Critics Academy 2017, NISIMASA workshops at Karlovy Vary 2016 and San Sebastian 2015.

Comments/abuse/commissions/collaborations extremely appreciated.

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About

Matt Turner is a film, arts, and culture writer, editor, curator, and researcher with specialisms in non-fiction film and artists’ moving image.
Contact me: m.lloyd.turner@gmail.com / @mattlloydturner.

  • Writing has appeared in: Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, Notebook, Film Comment, Filmmaker Magazine, Variety, Indiewire, frieze, Art-Agenda, Art Monthly, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Burlington Contemporary, Hyperallergic, MAP Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Field of Vision, International Documentary Association, The Calvert Journal, HUCK, The Quietus, Metrograph, Senses of Cinema, Kinoscope, Another Gaze, DISPATCH, and Festivalists. You can find a full archive of writing here.

  • Founding editor of Non-Fiction (2020-2021, editor of issues 1 & 2). Co-editor of SOJOURNS (2019). Editor of LOST FUTURES (2017-). Editor of the SAF Bulletin (2021). Assistant editor of MUBI’s Notebook (2022-). Co-editor of sensor (2023-).

  • Catalogue essays for: IDFA 2021, Asian Film Archive Monographs 2021, Frames of Representation 2017/2018/2020/2021/2022, Edge of Frame Weekender 2018, London East Asian Film Festival 2018.

  • Selected for the Locarno Critics Academy 2017, and NISIMASA workshops at Karlovy Vary 2016 and San Sebastian 2015. Member of the London Critics Circle (2021-).

  • Led marketing and communications for: Studio 3 Arts (2021), Open City Documentary Festival (2018-20), Shooting People (2015-17). Publications editor for Open City Documentary Festival (2018-20) and Sheffield Doc/Fest (2021).

  • Reviewed applications for the IDA’s Enterprise Documentary Fund (2022).

  • Pre-selection programming or programme advising for: Open City Documentary Festival 2018/19/20, London Film Festival 2019, Sheffield DocFest 2017/18, London Short Film Festival 2017, BFI Future Film Festival 2017, and Edinburgh Artists Moving Image Festival 2016.

  • Curated screening events at: BFI Southbank, Prince Charles Cinema, Close-Up Cinema, Genesis Cinema, Castle Cinema.

  • Panel and Q&A hosting for various festivals and events.