Mann is a London-based filmmaker and writer. His work explores the material politics of representation, with a particular focus on how visual media constructs and circulates environmental imaginaries. Mann's short and feature films have been screened at the Berlinale, Visions du Réel, Rotterdam Film Festival, Cinema du Réel, IDFA, DOC NYC, the Hong Kong Film Festival, Documenta Madrid, DocLisboa, and the ICA in London.
Mann is the author of Occupying Habits (Bloomsbury\ SOAS Palestine Centre, 2023) and Hot Locations: Cinema on the Planetary Frontier (forthcoming with UC Press, 2026). He is currently a Lecturer (assistant professor) at the Film Studies Department at King's College London. He held positions as an 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 and 2024, Mann was a resident of the Camargo Foundation, Cassis.