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

Recently: a newsletter on Listen to the Voices; Notebook Issue 7 and the 2025 Notebook Special; a newsletter on Debut and In the Manner of Smoke.

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: 8 July, 2025)

To watch: Alan Rudolph, Jocelyn Saab, Franco Piavoli

To read: Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Hannah Proctor), Self-Help (Lorrie Moore),

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

Of interest:

• Avenir - Primitive Maxi Trial (album)

• “The economics of self-publishing a book on Metalabel” (article)

• Dominique Lawalree - First Meeting (album)