Research

My academic research explores videographic criticism as a mode of scholarly inquiry, situated within the wider field of practice research. I’m particularly interested in the epistemological and affective possibilities of what Dr. Ben Spatz terms “the video way of thinking” - how audiovisual forms can produce knowledge through material, embodied, and non-logocentric means. My current doctoral project (University of Birmingham) examines the relationship between writing and image in videographic practice, attending to the formal, methodological, and critical implications of making research through moving images. Alongside the written thesis, the work includes a series of original video essay experiments. 

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Awards

• (2025) Best Screen Based Practice Research (Feature) – British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
  Awarded for Children of the Wicker Man.
  Panel comments: "A fascinating journey of discovery... unpeels layers of loss, the toxicity of artistic ‘success’, betrayal, loyalty, family relations and more... reveals the deeply cathartic process of addressing grief through the practice of filmmaking."

• (2023) Best Video Essays of 2022, Sight and Sound, BFI
  For Life and Death of the Image

• (2023) B-Film Small Funding Pot (£100) – to organise the inaugural Creative Practice Colloquium
  (“Identities and Methodologies of the Audio-visual Postgraduate Researcher”)

• (2023) B-Film Small Funding Pot (£250) – to organise the 6th Annual PGR Symposium

• (2022) Learning on Screen Postgraduate Award (Nomination)
  For The Earth is Flat and I’m Falling Off the Edge
   

Publications

• Wright, E.V., Saunders, J., & Jones, N. (2024)
  ‘Identities and Methodologies of Doctoral Candidates Undertaking Audiovisual Research-by-Practice’, Academic Quarter, 27.
  DOI link

• Wright, E.V. (2023)
  ‘Life and Death of the Image’, Viewfinder Magazine, Issue 122: Digital Humanities.
  Read online
   

Audiovisual Productions

• Children of the Wickerman (2024)
  Feature Documentary. Premiered at FrightFest 2024. Official selection at GrimmFest, Fantastic Fest, Monster Fest, and others.
  Winner: Best Documentary – Vortex Film Festival, Rhode Island Flickers

• Pushing the Boundary (2024)
  Short Documentary. Premiered at ArtHouse Crouch End

• Life and Death of the Image (2022) – Video Essay
  Featured in Sight and Sound

• A Case for Truth in Andrew Dominik’s Blonde (2022) – Video Essay

• Get Busy Dying (2022) – Documentary

• Just Calling to Say (2022) – Experimental Documentary
  Screened at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham. Funded by

• The Earth is Flat and I’m Falling Off the Edge (2021) – Documentary

• M.A.D. (2021) – Short
  Multiple festival selections and awards including Best Shorts Competition
   

Conferences, Presentations & Research Activities

• (2025) The Future of Practice Research - Manchester Metropolitan University

• (2025) Videographic Entanglements - TORCH, University of Oxford

• (2025) BAFTSS Annual Conference: Practice Research SIG: “Rebellious Research” - University of Warwick

• (2024) 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association: "Documentary Filmmaking Using Critical Realist Ontology" - University of Porto

• (2024) BAFTSS Annual Conference: “On Writing and the Video Essay” - University of Sussex

• (2024) Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Conference: “A.I. Generated Content and Sensitive Historical Circumstances” - University of Reading 

• (2023) Screening Spaces of Youth Symposium: “The Sausage King of Chicago…” - Online

• (2023) Birmingham-Zaragoza Research Colloquium: “Borders in the Digital Age: Videographic Work and Online Communities” - Online

• (2022) B-Film PGR Symposium: Screening of Life and Death of the Image and Otherism and the Face in Children’s Animation - Online

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