Role
- I am a practice-based researcher with an interest in Experimental Film and Fine Art and welcome PhD proposals in these areas.
- I am the Course Leader of the MA Filmmaking and lead its core modules: Film Experiments and Film Project.
- Module leader of the 1st year module Experimental Practice where students learn about the history of avant-garde film and art and develop practical skills in this area.
Career overview
Previously I worked at the University of Edinburgh as a postdoctoral researcher, focussing on the interaction between light and space. I then worked as a freelance sound designer and filmmaker, before teaching sound design and experimental film at the Edinburgh College of Art and Liverpool John Moores University.
Research areas
My research is predominantly practice-based and interdisciplinary. Born in 1984 in the Netherlands, I studied at the University of Amsterdam, UNIS in Svalbard, the University of Bristol and finally in Edinburgh, where I completed a PhD and postdoc in Cosmology at the Royal Observatory, supervised by Prof Catherine Heymans, Scotland’s Astronomer Royal, and cosmologist Fergus Simpson.
From 2014 my films have reached an international audience at major film festivals, such as the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, Zinebi, Full Frame, Ann Arbor, and Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. Since Graminoids (2014), a short film co-directed with Dr Demelza Kooij, I continue to investigate cinema’s position in an ecological context. My sound- and installation art have featured at Sonica in Glasgow, The Edinburgh International Festival, WRO Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, FACT in Liverpool, MMCA in South Korea, and Aichi Triennale in Japan.
Publications
Koens, L. and Kooij, D., 2018. Creative use of voice in non-fiction narrative film: an examination of the work of Peter Mettler. DOCUMENTARY FILM AND THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE, p.151.
Koens, L. A., B. J. Maughan, L. R. Jones, H. Ebeling, D. J. Horner, E. S. Perlman, S. Phillipps, and C. A. Scharf. "The WARPS Survey–VIII. Evolution of the galaxy cluster X-ray Luminosity Function." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 435, no. 4 (2013): 3231-3242.
Course(s) I teach on
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Undergraduate | Full-time / SandwichCOURSE
Filmmaking - BA (Hons)
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/art-and-design/ug/ba-hons-filmmaking