Deniz Johns is an experimental filmmaker and a founding member of collective-iz, an artist collective, working within the context of experimental film, video and performance. She is currently teaching at Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts as a lecturer in Film Practice. She completed a PhD in 2021. Before receiving her MA from the Royal College of Art in 2012, she studied film, choreography and linguistics in Turkey, Poland, Japan, and the UK. https://cargocollective.com/denizjohns