Dr Phillip Warnell

Contact

Email: p.warnell@kingston.ac.uk
Location: Kingston School of Art, Knights Park
Faculty: Kingston School of Art
School: School of Art and Architecture
Department: Department of Film and Photography

About

I produce cinematic, art work and textual material exploring a range of philosophical, poetic and sensorial thematics: ideas on human-animal relations, screen-politics, the presence of those with extraordinary attributes and poetics of bodily and life-world circumstances. My most recent three film works have been made in collaboration with philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and I currently have a project in development with Martha Wollner and Jean-Christophe Bailly. A fellow at the prestigious Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University (Film Study Centre 2017-18), I have also previously worked at George Mason University (Washington DC), Warwick University (UK, Leverhulme Trust) and University of Gloucestershire (UK). I studied at Middlesex, Chelsea (UAL), FAMU & AVU (Prague) and Cergy Pontoise (Paris). I have been taught by: Simon Read, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Patrick Keiller, Suzannah Heron, Judith Goddard, Helen Chadwick, Guy Sherwin and Milos Sejn.

I am director of the Visible Institute: www.thevisibleinstitute.org

Academic responsibilities

Associate Professor and Director of Studies MA Experimental Film

Qualifications

BA Hons Fine Art (1st class)
MA Fine Art Media
PhD (supervisor Stephen Barber) Anatomy of the Incorporeal

Research

My films are performative, establishing elements for a film shoot as (part) event, resulting in an interplay between scripted, documented and (sometimes) precarious filming circumstances. Increasingly, my films convey alternatives to industry narratives and genre-base. The writing I produce suggests wider discourses on screen-based work and film philosophy. I contribute regularly to research events and symposia, most recently at MOMI New York (2019), Harvard Film Archive (HFA, 2018), 'Wild Minds' at ICA, London (2017) and a new film was premiered recently at Visions du Reel festival (2020).

For research see: