Writing
I’ve been writing about film for several years since graduating my MA in Film Studies at Kingston University. My writing and interviews have appeared in MUBI Notebook, Senses of Cinema, BOMB Magazine, Kinoscope, Little White Lies, Cineaste and more. My research interests include analogue film, archival footage, restorations, essay films, cinephilia, film form, space<>place, coming of age/‘slacker’ narratives et al. If you’re interesting in commissioning me for an article, or if you’re a filmmaker with a film that you would like to share with me, please get in touch at drewnorthrop [at] gmail [dot] com
Death Race Calcutta: Ruchir Joshi’s Essay Films - MUBI Notebook, May 2023
The Philippines’ Turbulent Past Captured in Film - Hyperallergic, November 2022
Budapest Classics Film Marathon - Senses of Cinema, October 2022
We Learn by Making: A Conversation with Alexandra Cuesta - Senses of Cinema, October 2022
“Anyox” by Jessica Johnson and Ryan Ermacora - Open City Documentary Festival, August 2022
The vanishing art of celluloid film projection endures in Locarno - Swissinfo, August 2022
“Skazka” by Alexander Sokurov - Locarno Daily, August 2022
“It is Night in America”: Brazilian Nights From an Animal’s Point of View - Hyperallergic, August 2022
‘Arnold Is a Model Student’: Sorayos Prapapan’s Debut, Inspired in Part by Thailand’s Bad Student Movement - with Srikanth Srinivasan - Variety, August 2022
The World of Music Video Is Finally Adopting Restoration Efforts - Hyperallergic, May 2022
“Sol de Campinas” - Jessica Sarah Rinland - Millenium Film Journal Issue 74, Fall 2021
Bite Size Methodologies—The 2nd Small File Media Festival - MUBI Notebook, September 2021
Sunken Film: Bill Morrison Talks “The Village Detective: a song cycle” - Senses of Cinema, July 2021
Making Visible: The 2021 Cinéma du Réel - Senses of Cinema, May 2021
Archival Engagements: A review of films showing at Essay Film Festival 2021 - MAP Magazine, March 2021
“Home, far away from Home”: Truong Minh Quý on “The Tree House” - Senses of Cinema, April 2020
A History of the Film Industry’s Fascination With Color - Hyperallergic, April 2020
Tusk: Jessica Sarah Rinland on “Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another” - Filmmaker Magazine, March 2020
An unreleased George A Romero film addresses the effects of ageism - Little White Lies, February 2020
Archive and Memory at IFFR 2020 - Kinoscope, February 2020
There’s a Universe in These Little Details: An Interview with Patricio Guzmán - MUBI Notebook, February 2020
Life and Death in the USSR: Sergei Loznitsa’s “State Funeral” - Kinoscope, January 2020
What Time is Made Of: A Discussion with Diana Vidrascu - MUBI Notebook, January 2020
50 Years Later, Watching Jimi Hendrix Onstage (On Film) - Hyperallergic, January 2020
IDFA 2019 - Honoring the Art of the Archival Film - Hyperallergic, December 2019
IDFA 2019 - Seeing How Experimental Documentary Film Can Get - Hyperallergic, December 2019
IFA 2019 - Rethinking Villains in Documentary Film - Hyperallergic, December 2019
A Projection Over the Forest: An Interview with Ian Soroka - Kinoscope, November 2019
Criterion’s collection of Showa-era Godzilla films is a cinematic feast - Little White Lies, November 2019
Reimagining an Elephant: Discussing “Cemetery” with Carlos Casas - MUBI Notebook, October 2019
Elevating the Representation of Animals Onscreen - Carlos Casas’s “Cemetery” - Hyperallergic, September 2019
Director Sergei Loznitsa on digging through Soviet archives and the challenge of dissecting the past - Calvert Journal, September 2019
Focus: “Treasure Island” - Variations on a Waterpark - Open City Docs, August 2019
Something You’re Not Supposed to Look At: Christopher Harris Interviewed by Andrew Northrop - BOMB Magazine, August 2019
Long Awkward Pause: Andrew Bujalski Talks “Mutual Appreciation” - MUBI Notebook, July 2019
How we brought Apollo 11 from NASA’s archive to the big screen - Little White Lies, June 2019
The 5th Nitrate Picture Show - MUBI Notebook, June 2019
Focus: Jürgen Böttcher’s The Wall: The Nature of The Wall - Open City Docs, May 2019
To Take a Measurement: Jem Cohen and Fugazi’s “Instrument” - Kinoscope, March 2019
Close-Up on Leandro Listori’s “La película infinita” - MUBI Notebook, January 2019
Filming the Invisible: An Introduction to Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd - MUBI Notebook, January 2019
Documenting the Soul: On Three Films by Jürgen Böttcher - Kinoscope, January 2019
Notebook’s 11th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2018 - MUBI Notebook, December 2018
The Spaces That Inhabit Us: Shireen Seno on “Nervous Translation” - Kinoscope, December 2018
Missing Films and Videotaping Syndicates: Sandi Tan Discusses “Shirkers” - MUBI Notebook, October 2018
Open City Documentary Festival 2018 - Focus: Film as Form - Open City Docs, August 2018
Landscape Plus: An Interview with Laida Lertxundi - MUBI Notebook, June 2018
A Strange Autumn: João Moreira Salles Discusses “In the Intense Now” - MUBI Notebook, August 2018
Personal Impressions from the 2018 Essay Film Festival - Essay Film Festival, April 2018
Focus: Essay Film Festival 2018 — ★: Johann Lurf’s Cinema of Attractions - Open City Docs, February 2018
Haptically Revisiting Agnès Varda’s Jacquot de Nantes - Senses of Cinema, December 2017
Poetic Encounters: A Discussion with Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd - MUBI Notebook, September 2017