Mann is a London-based filmmaker, writer, and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at King’s College London. His work explores the material politics of representation, with a particular focus on how visual media constructs and circulates environmental imaginaries. 

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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. Mann’s most recent film, "Under a Blue Sun" (2024), received the Best International Film award at Documenta Madrid 2024. His new project in development, titled The Uganda Plan, was part of the 2025 Cinemart selection and is due to be filmed in 2026. 

 

Mann is the author of Occupying Habits: Media as Warfare in Israel\Palestine (Bloomsbury, 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. Between 2021-2024 Mann was a resident of the Camargo Foundation, Cassis.