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Joanna is a Lecturer on BA (Hons) Filmmaking. She is a socially-engaged artist filmmaker working with collaborative, experimental, and sustainable filmmaking practices – working with film and moving image across cinema, gallery and non-traditional screening contexts. Her films screen on the international film festival circuit, and she has worked for high profile partners including Tate, BFI Southbank, The Whitney Museum of American Art and FACT.
Joanna’s filmmaking practice foregrounds subjective, embodied and tactile modes of experimental storytelling. She employs hybrid techniques incorporating both analogue and digital technologies, using sustainable, alternative photographic methods for moving image-making.
Her research interests include ‘filmmedicine’ – exploring the therapeutic and transformational potentialities of place-based, participatory filmmaking to connect us to each other, our communities and the environments we live and work in. Her current work focuses on human relationships with urban nature through a study of rewilded brownfield sites, exploring place-making and worldbuilding through creative soundscapes.
Joanna works on BA (Hons) Filmmaking as a Lecturer across all levels, teaching, guiding and supporting students with their individual and collaborative practical work, academic and professional writing. Drawing on her background in community engagement and inclusive teaching practice, she is committed to supporting all students to reach their potential and realise their creative vision on the course and beyond.
Publications
[Book chapter] Byrne, J. (2023) Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: BooBoo’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable, in Kashmere, B. & Polta, S., eds. Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live! Oakland, CA: San Francisco Cinematheque/ Incite: A Journal of Experimental Media.
[Article] Byrne, J. (2020) Cleanse, Tone, Moisturise [Conceal] Found Footage Magazine, 6.
Screenings
(2024) Analogica 14, Bologna, Italy.
(2024) Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA.
(2024) New Year, New Work. New York Filmmaker’s Coop, New York.
(2024) Museo Nacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
(2023) CROSSROADS: Official Selection, San Francisco.
(2023) Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, New York.
(2023) 25FPS Festival: International Competition, Zagreb, Croatia
(2023) Kinoskop, Belgrade, Serbia.
(2023) Flatpack Festival, Birmingham.
(2023) SeaChange Film Festival (Screen Argyll), Isle of Tiree.
Exhibitions
Solo show. (2025) To remember... / è®°å¾—: The Martin Thomas Memorial Artwork. Permanent exhibition of photographs, installed at the University of Leeds.
(2024) On Queerness & Ecology, Safehouses, London.
(2024) PC-24, PHOTO-CANOPY, Burton-on-Trent.
(2024) Illumination, Folk House & Centrespace Gallery, Bristol.
(2022) Loose Screw, The Art House, Wakefield.