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Mann is a London-based filmmaker, writer and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at King’s College London. His work in writing and filmmaking examines the infrastructures underlying audio-visual media in the context of colonialism, armed conflict, and climate emergency. He 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 is forthcoming with the University of California Press (2026. It explores the neocolonial economy of desert film locations and the material politics connecting cinema and hyper-arid lands.

 

Mann's feature films have been exhibited internationally at film festivals and venues such as the Berlinale, the Rotterdam Film Festival, Cinema du Reel, DOC NYC, the Hong Kong Film Festival, Documenta Madrid, Doc Lisboa, Visions du Réel, and the ICA in London. Mann’s most recent film, Under a Blue Sun, premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival’s Tiger Competition, Centre Pompidou, the ICA, and received the Best International Film award at Documenta Madrid 2024.
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, 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. 

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