Bartek Dziadosz is a filmmaker and media lecturer. He is the Director of the Derek Jarman Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. The lab is a research centre and production company making essay films distributed by Curzon Artificial Eye and Criterion. Bartek’s first feature, The Trouble with Being Human These Days (2013), was a hybrid documentary about Zygmunt Bauman and liquid modernity. He later co-directed The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2016) with Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, and Christopher Roth.
Bartek’s short films explore a wide range of subjects, from the history of subliminal advertising (Nothing Exists Until You Sell It, 2021) to the portrait of a Bakelite artifact collector (The Plastic Phoenix, 2020) to the politics of outdoor theatre (Declamations!, 2025). His films were funded by the AHRC, the Wellcome Trust and the British Academy.
Bartek also produced Weaving Knowledge (2023), directed by Anita Afonu, and served as an editing consultant on the award-winning An Insignificant Man (2016) by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla.
He studied at the Jagiellonian University, Westminster Film School, and the London Consortium. His PhD focused on theories of editing, and he now teaches cultural studies and media practice at Birkbeck and the Pittsburgh-London Film Program.
Bartek’s latest film, The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze, a film essay about learning, AI, and imagination co-directed with Tilda Swinton, premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest and Telluride in 2024.
Bartek’s short films explore a wide range of subjects, from the history of subliminal advertising (Nothing Exists Until You Sell It, 2021) to the portrait of a Bakelite artifact collector (The Plastic Phoenix, 2020) to the politics of outdoor theatre (Declamations!, 2025). His films were funded by the AHRC, the Wellcome Trust and the British Academy.
Bartek also produced Weaving Knowledge (2023), directed by Anita Afonu, and served as an editing consultant on the award-winning An Insignificant Man (2016) by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla.
He studied at the Jagiellonian University, Westminster Film School, and the London Consortium. His PhD focused on theories of editing, and he now teaches cultural studies and media practice at Birkbeck and the Pittsburgh-London Film Program.
Bartek’s latest film, The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze, a film essay about learning, AI, and imagination co-directed with Tilda Swinton, premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest and Telluride in 2024.
