Dr Laurence Kent
PhD
Expertise
I have expertise in film theory and philosophy and my work explores forms of noise and contingency within screen media. Full list of articles and papers: https://bristol.academia.edu/LaurenceKent
Current positions
Lecturer in Digital Film & Television
Department of Film and Television
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Biography
I completed my PhD in the Film Studies department of King's College London, exploring the metaphysics of Gilles Deleuze’s cinematic philosophy. Before starting at Bristol, I worked as a lecturer in universities and film schools around London, including KCL, MetFilm School, and London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
Publications
Selected publications
03/02/2026Hussein Shariffe's Filmic Ruins
Iluminace
Untamed Storms
Studies in World Cinema
An Infinity of Tactics
L'Atalante. Revista de Estudios Cinematográficos
Becoming-Flashdrive
Film-Philosophy
Indigesture : coping with trauma in found footage experimental cinema
Imago : studi di cinema e media : 24, 2, 2021
Recent publications
01/06/2026The Frenzy of the Intelligible
The Sex Scene
Hussein Shariffe's Filmic Ruins
Iluminace
Untamed Storms
Elemental World Cinema
Transcendental Reelism
Transformations
Untamed Storms
Studies in World Cinema
Teaching
Film Theory
Approaching Video Games
Global Cinemas
Queer Screens
Approaching Video Games
Global Cinemas
Queer Screens