Laurence Kent is Lecturer in Digital Film & Television at the University of Bristol. He has published and presented on various topics within film theory and philosophy, from Deleuzian ethics, experimental cinema, Hollywood action film, archiving practices, and anticolonial aesthetics. His articles and book reviews have appeared in Film-Philosophy, Alphaville, Studies in World Cinema, Screen, Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Frames Cinema Journal, and Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, amongst others. He is engaged in archival projects relating to Sudanese cinema and his current research explores forms of contingency, noise, and blurring within screen media.