Mann is a London-based filmmaker, writer, and lecturer (assistant professor) in the Film Studies department at King’s College London. Mann's feature films have been screened at the Berlinale, the Rotterdam Film Festival, Cinema du Réel, DOC NYC, the Hong Kong Film Festival, Documenta Madrid, DocLisboa, Visions du Réel, and the ICA in London. His films include Low Tide (2017), Salarium (2018), The Magic Mountain (2020), Under a Blue Sun (2024) and The Recce (2025), and a new project title Uganda, recently selected to the 2025 Rotterdam Cinemart, and planned to be filmed in 2026.
Mann is the author of Occupying Habits (Bloomsbury\SOAS Palestine Centre, 2023), as well as several essays and peer-reviewed articles. His current book project, titled Hot Locations: Cinema on the Planetary Frontier (forthcoming with UC Press 2026), explores the neocolonial economy of desert film locations and the material politics connecting cinema and hyper-arid lands.
Mann held positions as a Lecturer and Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Film Studies Department at King’s College London, and received his PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture and the Media Department at Goldsmiths College, London. He was also a fellow at the Camargo Foundation between 2021-2024.
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