Sophia Satchell-Baeza

Biography

Dr. Sophia Satchell-Baeza is a lecturer, arts critic, editor, and film curator.

As Associate Lecturer at London College of Communication and London College of Fashion, Sophia has taught widely on topics related to the moving image, art history, and popular culture. This includes feminist film history, film curation, histories of experimental film and animation, music videos, and performance art. Sophia was Associate Research Fellow at CATHI Research Institute, De Montfort University, and has taught at institutions including King's College London, MetFilm School, University of Hertfordshire, and London South Bank University. Outside of academia, she has led critical writing workshops for Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, and University of Westminster.

An arts critic, her bylines include ArtReview, Another Gaze, AnOther Man, Elephant, i-D, Notebook, OCULA, Sleek, Time Out, and Wonderland. and various film-related books, academic journals, exhibition catalogues, and trade publications. As a freelance editor, she's worked with Another Gaze Editions, MUBI, La Furia Umana film journal, and MUBI's Notebook magazine. She is a member of the Critics’ Circle and the British Art Network.

In her capacity as a film curator, she has conceived programmes for the British Film Institute, Open City Documentary Festival, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Close-Up Cinema, Tyneside Cinema, Regent Street Cinema, The Horse Hospital, Portobello Film Festival and The Beursschouwburg (Brussels). Sophia has participated in a wide range of cultural events, workshops, and symposia at venues including Institute of Contemporary Arts, Guest Projects, The Royal Albert Hall, the Garden Cinema, Onoma Gallery (Finland), the Slovenian Cinematheque and National Portrait Gallery.

She holds a doctorate in Film Studies from King’s College London, with a particular research interest in the connection between light shows, intermediality, experimental film and psychedelic art: the subject of her upcoming monograph with Strange Attractor Press/ The MIT Press.