Miranda Pennell Movies

Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.

While investigating her late parents’ involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP), the filmmaker comes across the letters of a...

An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and...

One of a series of films combining music and images: an office cleaner, and what happens to some of the people who work in the building.

The memoirs of a medical missionary on the Afghan borderlands provides the starting point for a film constructed from still photographs of colonial...

Back stroke butterfly, front crawl and bras, we are awash in an ocean of bubbles. Meanwhile Captain Ahab sets sail on his magic carpet in search of...

A strange presence is haunting the images in the Crawford Collection, at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, and spreading across the city of London:...

People dance in private moments of personal abandon across London in the summer of 2001. The film is the result of the director’s work with the...

The empty spaces of an ambiguous building open-up to reveal a group of aspiring musicians as they play together, alone. Drum Room reflects on...

Twenty-one dancers are held by your gaze. Losing contact can be traumatic. Twenty-one dancers play a game of cat and mouse with an unpredictable...