Film

Lauren Powell

Film still showing a doll's house and various toy dinosaurs and animals

I am a filmmaker and writer whose work explores embodied experience, spectatorship, memory, and domestic space through experimental and research-based moving image practices. Working across film, video essays, and audiovisual criticism, I'm interested in sensory forms of spectatorship, texture, duration, and the relationship between bodies, spaces, and emotion.

My practice draws on feminist film theory, haptic visuality, and traditions of experimental and observational cinema to examine themes of care, intimacy, repetition, and affect.

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Film still of young girl pulling mother's hair

'The Mother Trilogy' comprises three experimental nonfiction films made over a three-year period in my first years of motherhood. Across the trilogy, domestic spaces and everyday objects become vessels for emotional experience, navigating themes of maternal ambivalence and constructing a portrait of maternal life shaped by intimacy, anxiety, and constraint.

Film still of young boy looking around door

Embodied Spectatorship Video Essay – created for Theorising Spectatorship module, this video essay analyses the films of Lynne Ramsay in relation to the phenomenological film theories of Vivian Sobchack and Laura U. Marks.