Draft:Roz Mortimer

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• Comment: Article needs further work on references, including removal of external links embedded in the text (see WP:EL), and removal of citations of IMDb (not a reliable source). The draft deluges us with citations (WP:REFBOMB) but it is unclear if there is any significant coverage about Mortimer in reliable independent secondary sources, or if any of her works are sufficiently notable to be subjects of Wikipedia articles. Formatting could also be improved (sections on Early life and education, Career), as could punctuation (refs after punctuation, add missing full stops). Paul W (talk) 20:02, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

Roz Mortimer is a London-born artist and filmmaker who lives between the UK and Mexico. Her research-led practice is centred on exploring how film can both represent and activate the spectral as a manifestation of forgotten, repressed or buried trauma in society. She is the founder of the international research group Spectral Cinema and Contested Landscapes..^[1], was a Film London Lodestar in the Artist Filmmaker category in 2020 ^[2], and recipient of the FLAMIN Productions award in 2018.^[3] She has an MA in Visual Sociology (Goldsmiths, University of London) and a PhD in hybrid documentary practice (CREAM, University of Westminster)^[4], has been a lecturer and mentor in alternative film practice at Montana State University, University for the Creative Arts, Camberwell College of Arts, University for the Arts London (Central St Martins) and University College London and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She has been an artist's film consultant for Animate Projects, Four Corners, Film London Artists' Moving Image Network, and Wellcome Trust.

She originally studied textile design at Middlesex Polytechnic (formerly Hornsey College of Art) in the 1980s and on graduating in 1986 was commissioned to create a whole-room installation for the notorious Limelight Club's VIP room. Following that she worked as an art director for commercials, music videos and short films, notably collaborating with commercials director Trevor Melvinon his first short film The Dogs. She was represented by the Crucial Gallery in Notting Hill, often exhibiting textile, sculptural and installation work alongside the Mutoid Waste Company. In 1995 she directed her first short film Bloodsports for Girls, which was exhibited at the London Film-Makers Co-op^[5] and distributed by the feminist film distribution collective Cinenova, followed by Wormcharmerwhich was awarded the documentary prize in the international competition at the Tampere International Short Film Festival.^[6] Subsequently, she continued to create artworks across a variety of media, but with an increasingly socio-political emphasis.

In 2002 Roz directed Gender Trouble^[7], a film where intersex people spoke openly about the secrecy surrounding their lives and conditions.^[8] Supported with a Science on Stage and Screen award from The Wellcome Trust,^[9] with music composed by Max Richter, premiered at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, broadcast on the Sundance Channel, and exhibited at 1-0-1 Intersex at NGBK (New Society for Visual Arts), Berlin^[10] with artists Ins A Kromminga, Eli se Mbessakwini, Tyyne Claudia Pollmann, SubRosa, Terre Thaemlitz, Del LaGrace Volcano. The film became a critical tool for challenging the protocol for medical treatment of intersex babies^[11]

In 2005 she was invited to spend time in the Inuit communities of Iqaluit and Qikiqtarjuaq to work with a group of Inuit mothers on a film about the contamination of their breast milk by chemical pollutants migrating from the south. The project was supported by the environmental biologist Theo Colborn and the Inuk political representative and activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier and by grants from the Wellcome Trust's SciArt scheme. The resulting film, Invisible, featured throat singing performances by Tanya Tagaq, music by Wimme Saari, and first person interviews from Colborn, Watt-Cloutier and Inuit mothers who spoke emotively about their fears and how contaminants have impacted their lives. 'The film balances its attention to ecological calamity and ethnic and gender disparity with performative sequences, which focus on women’s bodies and their voices, and also mobilize curiosity, enchantment and wonder'.^[12] Invisible has been influential within film^[13], environmental^[14], anthropological^[15] and globalisation studies^[16]

In 2019 Roz's film The Deathless Woman premiered at the BFI London Film Festival^[17]. It went on to receive awards at Ake Dikhea?: TheFestival of Romani Film,^[18] and the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Practice in Research Awards ^[19], became the cornerstone of her thinking around Spectral Cinema, and has screened and toured widely as part of public-facing Roma Holocaust events.^[20][21] The film was the result of an 8-year collaboration with Roma organisations, individuals and communities in Europe with the aim of raising awareness of the Roma Genocide in WWII and the extreme and often violent prejudice Roma people still face today.^{[22][23][24][25]}

• 2024 Los Hombres^[26]
• 2019 The Deathless Woman^[27][28]
• 2018 Its Going to Rain^[29]
• 2014 This is History (after all)^[30]
• 2011 The Flayed Horse episodes 1 & 2^[31]
• 2007 Passages^[32]
• 2006 Invisible^[33]
• 2005 Tales from the Arctic Circle episodes 1-4^[34]
• 2003 Safety Tips for Kids^[35]
• 2002 Gender Trouble^[36]
• 2001 Dog of My Dreams^[37]
• 2000 Neverland^[38]
• 1999 Airshow^[39]
• 1998 Wormcharmer^[40]
• 1995 Bloodsports for Girls^[41]

• Spectral Cinema & Contested Landscapes. The Moving Image Review & Art Journal. Volume 12.2, December 2023 ^[42]. ISSN: 2045-6298
• The Address from Beyond the Grave: The Female Spectral Voice. Mai: Feminism and Visual Culture. Issue 11: Representing Women's Realities. Summer 2023 ^[43] ISSN: 2003-167x
• Flaunting Artifice: restaging history as critical fabulation. Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Documentary-Based Film Practice and Theory. Chapter 13. pp 155-165. ISBN 9781789387438
• 1-0-1 [one 'o one ] intersex. Das Zwei-Geschlechter-System als Menschenrechtsverletzung. ISBN 978-3-926796-95-0
• Talking Back to Science: Art, Science and the Personal. ISBN: 1 841290 52 1
• F for Farnham https://fforfarnham.uca.ac.uk/
• Antennae: the journal of nature in visual culture. Pretty Ugly, Issue 8, Volume 2, Winter 2008. ISSN 1756-9575

• Wonderdog Films [1]
• The Deathless Woman https://thedeathlesswoman.com/