Miranda Pennell s a British filmmaker. She has an MA in visual anthropology from Goldsmiths College, and a doctorate from the University of Westminster, on the relationship between film, photography and the colonial. She also writes, curates and as an activist she organises around culture and human rights. Herexperimental film The Host (2015) won Best Film Prize at Punto de Vista international documentary film festival of Navarra, and her latest project Strange Object was awarded the Grand Prix at Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova in 2021.
Strange Object
The Z Unit’s operation in a world far from our own was an experiment of sorts, a test. And this place, inhabited by beings different from ourselves, served as a laboratory. An investigation into imperial image-making, and destruction.