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Peter Snowdon is a filmmaker and writer. His feature-length found footage film The Uprising, which created an imaginary pan-Arab revolution out of YouTube videos from the Arab Spring, won the Opus Bonum Award for best world documentary on its début at the the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in 2013. His book-length study The People Are Not an Image. Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring was published by Verso in 2020. He holds a practice-based doctorate in artistic research from the University of Hasselt, and has taught film practice at the University of the West of Scotland and in the Visual Ethnography programme at Leiden University. He is Associate Researcher at MAD-PXL School of Art (Hasselt, Belgium), and a member of the editorial board of Collateral Journal. His current research explores handheld filmmaking as a somatic practice, from both an experiential and a political perspective.

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