Cited in the B.F.I. / Sight and Sound Best Video Essays of 2022 poll

Winner, Best Film (<10 mins), Wench Film Festival, India, 2023

Nominated for Best Writing Award and Best "We Are the Weirdos, Mister" Award, Renegade Film Festival, USA, 2023

Special Mention, Asia South-East Short Film Festival, Cambodia, 2023

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This essay film examines the representation of knitters and knitting, in over sixty horror films made by women, from the 1920s - 2020s, across South America, Europe, North America and East Asia.

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In this film I ask, what happens when the woman knits in a horror film? What might the representation of knitting tell us about social and cultural expectations around gender, genre and age? I then draw on the potential for videographic work to disrupt stereotyped representations of aging women across over a century of horror cinema.

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Screenings

• "Complex Problems" class, the American University of Washington DC, USA, November 2022

• Videography: Art and Academia. Epistemological, Political and Pedagogical Potentials of Audiovisual Practice symposium, Hannover, Germany, November 2022

• El Festival Internacional de Cine Terror de Valparaíso, Chile, December 2022, World Premiere

• Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, Germany, February 2023, European Premiere

• Kill Valentine Film Festival, Paris, France, February 2023

• Renegade Film Festival, Marietta, Georgia, USA, March 2023, North American Premiere

• Wench Film Festival, Mumbai, India, March 2023, South Asian Premiere

• Practice Research Symposium, University of Leeds, UK, March 2023

• Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Denver, USA, April 2023

• Salem Horror Fest, Salem, Massachusetts, USA, April 2023

• Galacticat Festival De Cinema Fantàstic, Tarrega, Spain, June 2023

• Visioni Notturne, Prato, Italy, June 2023

• Marienbad Film Festival, Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic, July 2023

• Macabro: Mexico City International Horror Film Festival, Mexico, August 2023

• Bali International Short Film Festival, Indonesia, South-East Asian Premiere, September 2023

• Festival international du court-métrage, Clermont-Ferrand, France, September 2023

• Ax Wound Film Festival, Boston, USA, September 2023

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