About

Ryan Powell is a documentary filmmaker and mixed media artist whose work explores the politics of space and the interplay between human action and the natural world.

He is interested in the way that political contestation has shaped the landscapes and spaces we live within. He uses practices such as field recording, oral history interviewing, video and aural collage techniques and often draws on heritage crafts as means of revealing histories that have left little behind by way of the visual evidence, histories that must be teased out based on hits and clues in the landscape and the memories of the people who live with them.

His work has been shown at galleries, festivals and events including: Four Courners Gallery, The Dean Heritage Centre, the International Film Festival of Portugal, the International Film Festival of Cape Verde and the London Labour Film Festival where he received the award for best documentary short for Their Land, Our Home. He has produced work for current affairs websites including Novara Media and has undertaken commissions for the University of Cambridge and Swarm Dynamics among others.

Ryan is currently working with the University of Westminster on a moving image work on the River Lea in East London as part of the British Councils Gender Ecologies programme.