Dr Emily Richardson
Lecturer in Film
- Phone
- +44 (0)1473 338473
- e.richardson@uos.ac.uk
- School/Directorate
- School of Business, Arts, Social Sciences and Technology
Emily Richardson is an artist filmmaker and Film Lecturer at the University of Suffolk. She studied Fine Art at Middlesex University and during her time there spent a semester at Cooper Union School of Art in New York. She received an MFA in Filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute in 1996 and has been making films ever since. She holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art in Visual Communication where she examined the translation of architectural space to filmic space through a trilogy of films about British architects 1960s prototype houses in East Anglia. In 2019 was awarded a TECHNE post-doctoral Innovation Fellowship to work with clothes designer Margaret Howell on a film to mark 50 years of her design practice. She curated an artists' film night, Art Station Film at The Art Station, a community focused arts organisation housed in a 1950s post office building in Saxmundham, Suffolk between 2022 -25 showing a diverse range of artists’ film and documentary both historic and contemporary, occasionally inviting guest filmmakers.
Richardson’s work sits within a lineage of filmmakers addressing ideas about our relationship to and impact on natural and constructed landscapes and environments through a reflexive observational approach to making work using a cross-disciplinary methodology that includes walking, photography, filmmaking, sound recording, historical and archive research, interviews, books and podcasts.
Her films have been shown in galleries, museums and festivals internationally including Whitechapel Gallery Film, London; Towner, Eastbourne; Focal Point, Southend; National Portrait Gallery, London; Tintype, London; Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London, Pompidou Centre, Paris, Barbican Cinema, London; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Botkyrka Konsthall Sweden; The Wapping Project, London; FACT Liverpool; Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Uppsala Museum, Sweden and Venice, Edinburgh, BFI London, Rotterdam and New York Film Festivals
Development and Pre-production: Final Project
Avant-garde and Experimental Film
Digital Film Production: Final Project: Module Leader
Her research interests include how sound and moving image reactivate architectural space, extending the idea of the house as a phenomenological concept and the transformative potential of the camera in investigating the edges of perception. Her films explore the nature of our relationship to personal histories and the spaces we inhabit, often working with sites in transition whether landscapes or architectural sites.
Publications
Richardson, E. and others (2026) Encounters with Kazuo Shinohara’s Umbrella House
Richardson, E. (2025) No Before or After; Responses to Shifting Landscapes
Richardson, E and Watts, J.P. (2024) Immaterial Terrain, Oral History Journal, Spring edition
Richardson, E. (2023) House Works, Tangible Territory Journal
Richardson, E. (2020) House Works
Richardson, E and Watts, J.P. (2017) Ideas of Disorder: 3 Church Walk by Cadbury-Brown, Occasional Papers
Dandelion Journal, Vol 7, No 1 (2016): Nostalgia
Richardson, E. (2009) 6 Films, LUX
Filmography
No Before or After; Notes on a Film, 2026 Dir/Prod/Camera/Edit/Sound: Emily Richardson Additional sound: Chris Watson
Immaterial Terrain, 2023 Dir/Prod/Camera: Emily Richardson Editor: Lucy Harris Music: LOOM
Britten, Reflections on Composition for Britten Pears Arts, 2023. Dir/Prod/Camera: Emily Richardson
A Working Space for Margaret Howell, 2022. Dir/Prod/Camera: Emily Richardson Editor: Lucy Harris
The Making of a Shirt for Margaret Howell, 2021. Dir/Prod/Camera: Emily Richardson Editor: Lucy Harris
MH50 for Margaret Howell, 2020. Dir/Prod/Camera: Emily Richardson Editor: Lucy Harris Sound: Mira Calix
Spender House 2018. Dir/Prod/Camera/Sound: Emily Richardson
Beach House 2015. Dir/Prod/Camera: Emily Richardson Sound: John Penn/Metaphonics/Emily Richardson
3 Church Walk 2014. Dir/Prod/Camera: Emily Richardson Words: Jonathan P. Watts Sound: Simon Limbrick
Rising 5th 2013. Dir/Prod/Camera: Emily Richardson
Over The Horizon 2012. Dir/Prod/Camera: Emily Richardson Sound: Chris Watson
The Futurist 2010. Dir/Prod/Camera/ Sound: Emily Richardson
The Picture House 2010. Dir/Prod/Camera/ Sound: Emily Richardson
The Plaza 2010. Dir/Prod/Camera/ Sound: Emily Richardson
Cobra Mist (extended) 2010 Dir/Prod/Camera: Emily Richardson Sound: Chris Watson
Memo Mori 2009 Dir/Prod/Camera/ Sound: Emily Richardson Narration: Iain Sinclair
Cobra Mist 2008 Dir: Emily Richardson Prod: Animate Projects/Emily Richardson Camera: John Adderley Sound: Chris Watson/ Benedict Drew
Transit 2006 Dir/Prod/Camera/ Sound: Emily Richardson Narration: Iain Sinclair
Block 2005 Dir/ Prod/ Camera: Emily Richardson Sound: Jonah Fox
Petrolia 2005 Dir/ Prod/ Camera: Emily Richardson Sound: Benedict Drew
Aspect 2004 Dir/ Prod / Camera: Emily Richardson Sound: Benedict Drew Funded by Film London LAFVA and Stour Valley Arts
Nocturne 2002: Dir/ Prod/ Camera: Emily Richardson Sound: Benedict Drew
Redshift 2001: Dir/ Prod/ Camera: Emily Richardson Sound: Benedict Drew