Miguel Abad Manning

Born and raised in the UK, Miguel is an ethnographer, visual anthropologist and experimental filmmaker of Spanish-Irish descent.

Miguel graduated with degrees in (BSocSci) Social Anthropology and (MA) Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester, UK. He later enrolled to study in the 7th edition of Master LAV- centre for experimental film and contemporary art in Madrid, Spain.

His work takes an experimental approach to ethnographic research, investigating the relationship between humans and their environment, as well as their means of representing both themselves and ‘Others’. He focuses mainly on issues of ecological sustainability, human perception, metaphysics, the role of images in contemporary society, the materiality of film and film projection/screening as performance.