Joseph Owen Jackson

I am the Web Editor at The Location Guide (TLG), a digital resource for international film producers. My latest web articles are available online.

As TLG's in-house writer and producer, I work across the company's brands. I am Locations Editor for makers, TLG's bi-annual magazine for global film and media production. I act as a copywriter/scriptwriter for makers and shakers Awards, a prize ceremony owned by TLG that celebrates the achievements of the film production community. I also produce written and audiovisual content for the group's business conference FOCUS - The Meeting Place for International Production.

I was awarded a three-year SOAS PhD research scholarship in September 2018. I submitted my doctoral thesis on 15 September 2021, and successfully defended the paper on 13 December 2021 with no revisions.

My research project 'Kahlil Joseph, New Media and the Audiovisual Atlantic: Music and Moving Images between Africa, America and Europe' examines the films, music videos, advertisements and installations of interdisciplinary filmmaker Kahlil Joseph. The thesis explores the ways in which the director and his contemporaries merge visual representations of intercontinental experiences with the countercultural energies of Afrodiasporic music, thereby offering alternative versions of contemporaneity that challenge the Eurocentricity underpinning Western modernity. My MA dissertation - 'Kahlil Joseph, New Media and the African Diaspora' - won the SOAS School of Arts Postgraduate Dissertation Prize 2018.

I assist the online curation of the five-year project Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies, which is funded by the European Research Council (ERC). I am a guest editor for the forthcoming Screenworks special issue - Musicology on Screen. Four academic publications (two book chapters, two peer-reviewed journal articles) based on my research are scheduled for 2022, and I am passionate about turning my final PhD project into a book. Kahlil Joseph has collaborated with musicians Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, FKA Twigs, Flying Lotus, Sampha, Shabazz Palaces and Shafiq Husayn as well as fashion labels KENZO and Vans.

Selected Film and Media Journalism

Jackson, Joe. (Locations Editor) (2022), makers magazine 09, The Location Guide, London: in print and online. Forthcoming.

Jackson, Joe. Location Scouting in Northern Norway: Arctic Locations organise 'dream' familiarisation trip to remote Nordic regions, The Location Guide, 20.04.22.

Jackson, Joe. NBCUniversal’s Metropolis series to shoot at new virtual production facilities in Melbourne, The Location Guide, 14.04.22.

Jackson, Joe. Netflix’s incoming Polish slate includes nine films and nine shows, The Location Guide, 13.04.22.

Jackson, Joe. Film in Malaysia Incentive (FIMI) offers 35% cash rebate, The Location Guide, 12.04.22.

Jackson, Joe. Taiwan-US feature Sun Moon wraps up filming in Nantou, The Location Guide, 11.04.22.

Jackson, Joe. Location One excited to host festive Location Managers Christmas Drinks, FOCUS (The Location Guide), 22.11.21.

Jackson, Joe and Shona Smith (Locations Editors) (2021), makers magazine 08, The Location Guide, London: in print and online. 02.12.22.

Jackson, Joseph Owen (April 2020), 'Rest in Power, Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020)', in Screen Worlds, European Research Council (London, UK).

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Selected Book Chapters and Peer-viewed Journal Publications

Jackson, Joseph Owen (Spring 2022), 'Kahlil Joseph, New Media and the New Black Cinema: A Case for Situating Joseph's Audiovisual Work within the Theoretical Frameworks of African Film', in Black Camera, Indiana: Indiana University Press, Volume 13, No. 2, Spring 2022. Now available online.

Jackson, Joseph Owen (forthcoming 2022), ‘(Re)claiming Individuality, (Re)imaging Sambizanga’s Maria: Sarah Maldoror’s Afro-Feminist Film Adaptation of A Vida Verdadeira De Domingos Xavier’, in Sara Hanaburgh (ed), The History of Sub-Saharan African Literatures on Film, New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Now available to pre-order.

Jackson, Joseph Owen (forthcoming 2022). 'Searching for Soul, Reframing the Pursuit of Capital: A Comparison of Kahlil Joseph and Derek Pike's I Need A Dollar Music Videos,' in Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

Jackson, Joseph Owen (forthcoming 2022), ‘Timeless Glimpses of A-Free-Ka: Negotiating the Transmedia Screen Worlds of Kahlil Joseph's Cheeba (2010)’, in Añulika Agina, Lindiwe Dovey and Michael W. Thomas (eds), African Screen Worlds: Open-Access Edited Volume, London: Screen Worlds, European Research Council.

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Selected Guest Lectures and Public Speaking

Jackson, Joseph Owen (2022), 'Sights, Sounds, Roots and Routes: Music and New Media between Cultures and Forms,' Cultures of Africa, the Middle East , South and South East Asia II, Guest Lecturer at: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (London, UK). 08.03.22.

Jackson, Joseph Owen, with Kate Wilson, Salma Conway, Christine Hartland and Mahesh Ramachandra (2021), 'New Tech Solutions: Call It! and SMASH,' FOCUS - The Meeting Place for International Production, Panel Moderator, Business Design Centre (London, United UK). 07.12.21.

Jackson, Joseph Owen (2020), 'Music, Moving Images and Convergence,' Global Film Industries, Guest Lecturer at: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (London, UK). 09.12.20.

Jackson, Joseph Owen, with Professor Angelica Böhm, Professor Käthe Wenzel, Doctor Lars Gutow, and Jan Schneider (2020), 'Transmedia Storytelling: Camilla Plastic Ocean Plan – Exhibition Opening,' Ars Electronica Festival 2020, Panelist at: Ars Electronica, Kepler Gardens Channel (Linz, Austria). 11.09.20.

Jackson, Joseph Owen (2019), 'Kahlil Joseph and New Audiovisual Aesthetics: Contemporary African and Black Film, Television and Web Series,' The Story of African Film: Narrative Screen Media in Africa, Guest Lecturer at: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (London, UK). 10.12.19.

Jackson, Joseph Owen (2019), 'Adapting Music Business to the Digital Age,' Music in the Disruptive Era: The Digital, the Internet and Beyond, International, Conference Speaker at: Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto, Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini (Lucca, Italy). 15.12.19.

Jackson, Joseph Owen, with Assistant Professor Keith Wagner, Ram Baht and Rachel Velody (2019), 'Roundtable on Cross-disciplinarity', Screen and Film Research Methods Today, Roundtable Speaker at: Goldsmiths, University of London (London, UK). 19.10.19.

Jackson, Joseph Owen (2019), 'What is an Urban Film Essay?: An Introduction to Handsworth Songs (1986)', City, Essay. Film: Handsworth Songs, Public Screening Introducer at: Bertha DocHouse with University College London, University of London (London, UK). 24.06.19.

Jackson, Joseph Owen (2019), 'Contemporary Media Scholarship and the Film Essay Form', UoL Screen Studies Group Research Conference, Conference Speaker at: Birkbeck, University of London (London, UK). 09.06.19.

Jackson, Joseph Owen (2019), 'Crossroads of New Media: Music Video and the African Diaspora', Migration, Mobilities and Borders, Conference Speaker at: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (London, UK). 23.03.19.

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Selected Events Organisation (Public Engagement and Academic Community)

SOAS CCIMSS, Contemporary Pakistani Cinema: directors Meenu Gaur & Tabish Habib, hosted by Dr. Zebunnisa Hamid, Co-organiser at: Public Lecture Series, SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (London, UK). 11.03.21.

SOAS CCIMSS, Media, ‘Diversity’ and Racial Capitalism, Co-organiser at: Public Lecture Series, SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (London, UK). 05.02.21.

SOAS CCIMSS, You Hide Me: 50 Years On (Pt. 1 of Webinar Series) – Restitutions, Curating & Teaching African Art, Co-organiser at: Public Lecture Series, SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (London, UK). 06.01.21.

Screen Studies Group, Screen Studies Research in a Pandemic, Co-organiser at: Zoom Series, University of London (London, UK). 23.10.20, 24.10.20 and 20.11.20.

Screen Studies Group, Screen and Film Research Methods Today, Co-organiser at: Goldsmiths, University of London (London, UK). 19.10.19.

Screen Studies Group, UoL Screen Studies Group Research Conference, Co-founder and Co-organiser at: Birkbeck, University of London (London, UK). 09.06.19.

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