Emily Wright

Film Studies, Programming and Curation

2022

emily wright

Work at NFTS includes:

The Edge of Belief Graduation Film Season at Close-Up Film Centre. Rich in atmospheric texture and visionary intent, this collection of feature-length and short films from across the world explores how faith, myth and belief have shaped the landscape and the experience of those who live within it, often foretelling disasters to come. 
Dissertation: In History's Waiting Room: Cinema's Slow Subversions of the Past - a close-reading of Lucrecia Martel's Zama, Albert Serra's The Death of Louis XIV, and Rita Azevedo Gomes' The Portuguese Woman. 
BFI Placement: London Film Festival Curatorial Intern Case Study: Porto/Post/Doc and the post-documentary festival identity
Essay: How does the ‘‘spectral’’ confront and challenge notions ofnational identity in Christian Petzold’s Yella (2007) and Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman (2008)?
Roundtable Discussion 'Soviet Cycles' at Frames of Representation: Researcher 
Focal Films Awards: Student Jury 
Film Africa: Pre-Selection 

Programming Projects: 
Neighbouring Scenes: A season of contemporary British films
Postcolonial Possessions: A transnational season of horror films
The Right to Play Oneself: A series of Participatory Films, inspired by the 60th anniversary of the seminal 1961 film Chronicle of a Summer by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin.

Leverhulme Scholar