Video essays and conferences

Examples of my audiovisual work can be found on my Vimeo channel http://www.vimeo.com/jemmasaunders

Select Screenings

A Birmingham Symphony

  • Doc.London Documentary Film Festival (March 2026) – Official Selection (online programme) and recipient of the Tarkovski Grant

Hollywood does Sherwood: Reinforced Aesthetics of my Robin Hoods

  • Audiovisual Essays Programme, Screen Conference (Glasgow, Scotland, June 2025).
  • ‘Remakes and Memory’ screening event, part of the Hollywood Memories research project, at Kommunales Kino im Künstlerhaus (Hannover, Germany, February 2025).

Conference Presentations

  • Silly Geography and the Musical Sequence: Remapping the Birmingham of Take Me High. ‘Real and Imagined Spaces in Film Conference’ Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain, May 2025)
  • Julie Andrews: Voice. ‘Videographic Star Studies’ panel at SCMS Conference (Boston, USA, March 2024
  • Commonwealth Caps. ‘The Phenomenon of the Peaky Blinders’ event, ESRC Festival of Social Science (Digbeth, Birmingham UK, November 2022)

Audiovisual PhD trailer: