Susannah Gent is a film maker & artist based in Sheffield and Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Production at Sheffield Hallam University ((South Yorkshire UK). Her experimental fiction and essayistic films, that spans two decades, explores the representation of subjectivity and alternative approaches to narrative.
Gent's practice-based Ph.D.: The neuroscientific uncanny: a filmic investigation of twenty-first century hauntology includes filmic outputs: Unhomely Street, a twenty-minute short that explores hauntology and mental illness, premiered at the 63rd International Short Film Festival of Oberhausen, Scanner, a filmic experiment documenting an fMRI survey investigating the neurological underpinnings of the uncanny, and Psychotel, a sixty-minute essay film that investigates the uncanny, screened at Signes de Nuit in Paris 2021. A retrospective of Gent's films was programmed at the 66th International Short Film Festival of Oberhausen in 2020.
Gent's early short films, funded by the British Film Institute, Channel Four, and Fuji Film Scholoarships, have won multipl awards at international film festivals. Her feature film Jelly Dolly won the 'Best Film' award at the British Council’s 'Britspotting Showcase' in Berlin in 2005.
Between 2005 and 2010 Gent worked in fine art taxidermy including a year-long residency at Bank Street Arts.
Gent has recently completed an adaptation of short story, The Cellar, by the Manchester-based writer Nicholas Royle,



 

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