leff's opening lecture asks how the essay film can respond to the invisual — the hidden systems of data, algorithms, and labour that shape how images are produced, processed, seen, and unseen.

Night after night, an activist in Amsterdam cannot sleep, kept awake by sixteen hours of screen time and an endless barrage of violent images from around the world.

Peer into the lives of tech workers, and their perspectives on big tech and data, through a personal tour of their phones.

In his latest desktop documentary, Lee unpacks with a forensic style the visuals of the War on Terror and ISIS propaganda. Through digital archives, cultural artefacts and artistic research, he asks: “how can we collectively resist the act of forgetting?