Michael Pigott

Michael Pigott is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Joseph Cornell Versus Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2013), the forthcoming Wild Sound: Cinema and the Sonic Environment (Bloomsbury, 2025), and articles on the image of the sleeping body, the sonic environment of the projection box, experimental documentary practices, and uses of projection outside of the cinema. He was co-investigator on the UK AHRC-funded projects The Projection Project (2014–2018) and Sensing the City (2017–2020). His practical research outputs sometimes take the form of installations, films and albums, such as Sounds of the Projection Box (Gruenrekorder, 2018), RING ROAD RING (Gruenrekorder, 2020), and Slí na Fírinne (The Department of Energy, 2022), and his sound work has been featured on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Late Junction‘, NTS Radio, Resonance FM and others.