Nightcleaners (1975)
Oliver Dixon
PhD Candidate, Critic, Film Programmer and Occasional Film-Maker.Email: [email protected]
About
Oliver Dixon is an AHRC-funded PhD Candidate in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Cambridge. His PhD project, 'Cinema as Social Practice: Structures of Feeling, the Class Relation and British Independent Film in the Interregnum, 1968-1985', develops a history of the British independent film movement, exploring both its filmmakers and intellectuals, in the long 1970s.He writes for both academic and non-academic publications on the histories of British and radical cinema.He is an awardee of the 2025 Michael O'Pray Prize.He is an alumnus of the Another Gaze critics workshop at Open City Documentary Festival and the European Workshop for Film Criticism.He has also programmed film screenings for the London Short Film Festival and Welsh arts organisations. He occasionally makes films.Download his academic CV here.
Writing
Academic-'Excavating Integrated Practice', Feminist Media Histories (Forthcoming 2026).-‘So That You Can Live and the Crisis of the Welsh Landscape’, Frames Cinema Journal (2025). Read online.-Adolescence (2025) and the Social Realist Registration of Fascism, In Media Res (2025). Read online.-‘The Chronotopes of Radical Film: Collective Exhibition and the Social Practice of “Cinema Action”’, Moving Image Review and Art Journal, 14(1) (2025), pp. 11-28. Read online.-‘Cinema Action and Chanel Four: Television at the Intersection of Radical Politics and Independent Film', ViewFinder Magazine 121 (2022). Read online.Criticism-'Paper Tiger Television @ Goldsmiths CCA Review', Art Monthly (2026). In print.-'Encampment Cinema', Talking Shorts (2026). Read online.-'Machinic Visions', Talking Shorts (2026). Read online.-'Communist Dislocations', Art Monthly (Michael O'Pray Prize 2025). Read online.-'John Smith on Being John Smith', Open City Documentary Festival (2025). Read online.-'Feminist Effects in Recent Hollywood Cinema', Cambridge Review of Books (2024). In print.Editorial Work-Visual Culture and (Anti-)Fascism Dossier, In Media Res (2025). Read online.-London Short Film Festival 2025, Programme Notes and Responses(2025). Read online.
Film Programming
-Tainted Objects, Conjured Realities, London Short Film Festival, ICA (2025).-Housing Problems, London Short Film Festival, ICA (2025).-Fake Your Death, Take a Seat, G39 Cardiff, Three Volumes of Political Cinema.
Les statues meurent aussi (1953)
Films
The Dividing Line (2025), 5 minutes, directed with Katie Wrench. Watch here.
ICA Screening, 14th September 2025.
Garden Cinema Screening, 28th September 2025
Midlands Arts Centre Screening, 30th September 2025
Prospero's Dream (2022), 2 minutes, directed with Jo Haynes. Watch here.
The Hour of the Watery Flower (2022), 10 minutes, directed with Clem Boetti, Rhodri Prysor and Devin Seth Thomas.
