Erika Balsom

Erika Balsom is Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London. She is the author of four books including TEN SKIES (2021) and After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation (2017), and the co-editor of Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989 (2019) and Documentary Across Disciplines (2016). Her articles have appeared in journals including Screen, Cinema Journal, and Grey Room. Alongside her academic work, she regularly writes criticism for publications including Artforum, 4Columns, and Cinema Scope. She was the co-curator of the film programme “Shoreline Movements” for the 2020 Taipei Biennial and the exhibition “Peggy Ahwesh: Vision Machines,” currently on view at Spike Island, Bristol. In 2018, she was awarded a Leverhulme Prize and the Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.