Selected Writings
English
On Creating
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Scattered Truth part 1 (About my Childhood).
Waddington, Laura. In the PhD thesis by Bidhan Jacobs, Vers une esthétique du signal: Dynamiques du flou et libérations du code dans les arts filmiques (1990-2010). Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III, 2014.
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Scattered Truth part 2a (New York, The Visitor, Zone, The Lost Days...).
Waddington, Laura. In response to questions posed by Bidhan Jacobs by email, 2014.
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Scattered Truth, part 2b (Cargo, Border, the blur, new technology...).
Waddington, Laura. In response to questions posed by Bidhan Jacobs by email, 2014/2015.
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On Mirrors and the Making of M’s Story.
Waddington, Laura. May 2024.
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The Small, the Fragile, the Unfinished Voice.
Waddington, Laura. For the Avant-Garde Project initiated by Nicole Brenez, Paris, 2006.
On Art, Books and Films
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Small Gestures: On a Passage from Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story.
Waddington, Laura. Pre-recorded video address, projected on the occasion of The Anatomy of Ozu, BFI, Southbank, London, September 16, 2023.
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Abdullah and the Fireflies: On Reading Georges Didi-Huberman’s Survivance des lucioles.
Waddington, Laura. La Rivista di Engramma, no. 84 (“Lucciole malgrado tutto,” special issue devoted to Georges Didi-Huberman), October 2010.
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Letter to my father about The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello.
Waddington, Laura. La Furia Umana, paper issue no. 1, Ourense: Duen de Bux, January 2013.
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No Footsteps Remain: Letter to Mara Catalan.
Waddington, Laura. In the photo book Williamsburg: A Place I Once Called Home, by Mara Catalan. New York: Red Hook Editions, 2018.
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On the Films I saw in Isola.
Waddington, Laura. Invitation of Nika Bohinc. Ekran, Magazine for Film and Television Slovenia, 2007.
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From Shadows and Mexican Skies: An Interview with Gabriel Figueroa.
Waddington, Laura, and Walter Rippel. Translated from the Spanish translation of the original interview. El Amante, El Amante Cine, no. 12, Buenos Aires, November 1992.
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For My Father.
Waddington, Laura. Read at Mortlake Crematorium, December 10, 2015.
Film Lists
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10 Films for the Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time Director's Poll 2022.
Waddington, Laura. Sight & Sound Film Magazine online, BFI, London, 2022.
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10 Films for Desistfilm 2022 Film Round-up.
Waddington, Laura. Desistfilm Online Film Journal, Peru, January 2023.
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10 Films for the Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time Director's Poll 2012.
Waddington, Laura. Sight & Sound Film Magazine online, BFI, London, 2012.
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Vérifions La Muselière! Question lancée aux cinéphiles du monde: Quels évènements d'images vous ont marqués au cours des derniers mois?
Waddington, Laura. Panic: Revue de Cinéma, no. 2, Paris, January/February 2006.
French
Selected Writings
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Abdullah et les lucioles - à la lecture de Survivance des lucioles de Georges Didi-Huberman.
Waddington, Laura. Translated by Charlene Dinhut and Aude Tincelin. In Devant les images – Penser l’art et l’histoire avec Georges Didi-Huberman, edited by Thierry Davila and Pierre Sauvanet. Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, November 2011.
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La voix petite, fragile, inachevée.
Waddington, Laura. Translated by Nicole Brenez. In Le cinéma critique: De l’argentique au numérique, voies et formes de l'objection visuelle, edited by Nicole Brenez and Bidhan Jacobs. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2010
Spanish
Selected Writings
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Reportaje a Gabriel Figueroa: De sombras y cielos mexicanos.
Waddington, Laura, and Walter Rippel. Translated from the English by Walter Rippel. El Amante, El Amante Cine, no. 12, Buenos Aires, November 1992.
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Querida Mara: No dejan huellas.
Waddington, Laura. Translated by Annuska Angulo. In the photo book Williamsburg: A Place I Once Called Home, by Mara Catalan. New York: Red Hook Editions, 2018: end booklet.