Jack Wake-Walker is a filmmaker and academic working across experimental fiction, narrative, documentary, and poetry film. His work has screened internationally at festivals including Berlinale and Tallinn Black Nights, and spans over ten different languages. His experimental narrative feature Application Process premiered at FIC Autor Guadalajara in 2024, where it won Best Experimental Film.
His most recent short film, Debris Was A Thickening Wall, a critique on film festival censorship by the Turkish government, was screened at Izmir Short Film Festival in November 2025.
His current feature project Elimination Disorder (formerly Scarlett_123) was developed at Pustnik Screenwriting Workshop and selected for Fest New Directors | New Films. In 2021, Jack attended Werner Herzog’s Filming a Strange Planet workshop in Lanzarote, where he made the short film The Resonance, which Herzog described as containing “the greatest sex scene he has ever seen.”
Alongside his film practice, Jack works as an academic and researcher. He has co-authored work on the Bosnian War, including a hybrid poetry film titled Bridges <Bosnia 2.0>, and is currently undertaking a Creative Practice PhD in film at Newcastle University exploring how experimental cinema can engage with intangible cultural traditions.
Filmography
Vice Street – 2009 (documentary short)
Shad Thames Broken Wharf – 2010 (poetry film)
Crash – 2011 (video art)
The Debris Field – 2012 (poetry film)
The Man Who Prints Houses – 2012 (feature documentary)
Ten Thousand Things – 2013 (video art)
Photon – 2014 (poetry film)
Flyblown – 2015 (poetry film)
Turner – 2015 (poetry film)
Unsunblocked – 2015 (poetry film)
Of Comfort No Man Speak – 2015 (poetry film)
The Architect – 2015 (video art)
A Coat in Tarevci – 2016 (poetry film)
Bridges <Bosnia20> – 2016 (poetry film)
Punolo Jerdi Legi – 2016 (poetry film)
The Passion of Peter – 2016 (experimental)
No Mileage – 2018 (narrative short)
MASTER – 2018 (narrative short)
Hundegård (Dog Yard) – 2018 (narrative short)
Cuarto Cuatro (Room Four) – 2019 (narrative short)
Splinten (The Splinter) – 2020 (narrative short)
The Resonance – 2021 (narrative short)
Black Disc – 2021 (narrative short)
Nardi (Backgammon) – 2022 (narrative short)
What Will Be, Will Be – 2022 (narrative short)
I Remember When I was a Window – 2022 (experimental documentary)
Application Process – 2023 (narrative feature)
A Moment Frozen – 2023 (narrative short)
Debris Was A Thickening Wall – 2025 (narrative short)
Spectacle – 2026 (experimental feature, in post-production)
About
Jack Wake-Walker is a filmmaker and academic working across experimental fiction, narrative, documentary, and poetry film. His work has screened internationally at festivals including Berlinale and Tallinn Black Nights, and spans over ten different languages. His experimental narrative feature Application Process premiered at FIC Autor Guadalajara in 2024, where it won Best Experimental Film.
His most recent short film, Debris Was A Thickening Wall, a critique on film festival censorship by the Turkish government, was screened at Izmir Short Film Festival in November 2025.
His current feature project Elimination Disorder (formerly Scarlett_123) was developed at Pustnik Screenwriting Workshop and selected for Fest New Directors | New Films. In 2021, Jack attended Werner Herzog’s Filming a Strange Planet workshop in Lanzarote, where he made the short film The Resonance, which Herzog described as containing “the greatest sex scene he has ever seen.”
Alongside his film practice, Jack works as an academic and researcher. He has co-authored work on the Bosnian War, including a hybrid poetry film titled Bridges <Bosnia 2.0>, and is currently undertaking a Creative Practice PhD in film at Newcastle University exploring how experimental cinema can engage with intangible cultural traditions.
Filmography
Vice Street – 2009 (documentary short)
Shad Thames Broken Wharf – 2010 (poetry film)
Crash – 2011 (video art)
The Debris Field – 2012 (poetry film)
The Man Who Prints Houses – 2012 (feature documentary)
Ten Thousand Things – 2013 (video art)
Photon – 2014 (poetry film)
Flyblown – 2015 (poetry film)
Turner – 2015 (poetry film)
Unsunblocked – 2015 (poetry film)
Of Comfort No Man Speak – 2015 (poetry film)
The Architect – 2015 (video art)
A Coat in Tarevci – 2016 (poetry film)
Bridges <Bosnia20> – 2016 (poetry film)
Punolo Jerdi Legi – 2016 (poetry film)
The Passion of Peter – 2016 (experimental)
No Mileage – 2018 (narrative short)
MASTER – 2018 (narrative short)
Hundegård (Dog Yard) – 2018 (narrative short)
Cuarto Cuatro (Room Four) – 2019 (narrative short)
Splinten (The Splinter) – 2020 (narrative short)
The Resonance – 2021 (narrative short)
Black Disc – 2021 (narrative short)
Nardi (Backgammon) – 2022 (narrative short)
What Will Be, Will Be – 2022 (narrative short)
I Remember When I was a Window – 2022 (experimental documentary)
Application Process – 2023 (narrative feature)
A Moment Frozen – 2023 (narrative short)
Debris Was A Thickening Wall – 2025 (narrative short)
Spectacle – 2026 (experimental feature, in post-production)