Laura Waddington

Updated 21 September 2025, London.

Thank you for visiting my site. This page replaces a news section, and gathers some of the things I’m currently reading, watching, and working on:

Working on

We are in the book design phase of my two projects The Iraqi Suitcase and M’s Story, with the aim of self-publishing them this year or in early 2026. M’s Story will also include an exhibitable component.

Reading

Austerlitz W.G. Sebald
The Plague Jacqueline Rose
Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers ed. Jodi Hauptman (catalogue)

Watching

Antonio Gaudí by Hiroshi Teshigahara
Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar (Don’t Let Them Shoot the Kite) by Tunç Başaran
Le Diable probablement by Robert Bresson
Quatre nuits d’un rêveur by Robert Bresson
Les Fantômes (Ghost Trail) by Jonathan Millet
Dylda (Beanpole) by Kantemir Balagov
La Fille inconnue by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
The Silence by Ingmar Bergman
The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof
Bona by Lino Brocka
L’Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque by Éric Rohmer
The Return of the Projectionist by Orkhan Aghazadeh
The Bowery by Sara Driver
Miséricordia by Alain Guiraudie
Le Tombeau d’Alexandre by Chris Marker (rewatch)
Days of Eclipse by Aleksandr Sokurov (rewatch)

Listening

Quer by Yve Lomax
Lovable GAP by Yve Lomax
Nina Berberova (1901-1993), “je suis un fleuve”, Tout Une vie (France Culture)
Robert Capa, Wikiradio, (Rai Radio 3)

From the Archive

I am gradually adding more writings from my archive to the Writings section, and will post new texts there, along with images to the Diary, and the prologue sections of various films (e.g., unseen stills from the making of Cargo).

Updates

M’s Story was selected as a finalist for The Puchi Award 2026.
Border will be shown as a guest screening in Glimmers in the Dark at the Royal College of Art, London, organised by Copy Press, November 1, 2025.
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