BA Filmmaking programme leader and lecturer in Filmmaking.

Co-founder of Imperfect Cinema (2010-ongoing). The project began as an open-access film collective. We now create films that explore place, people and memory and facilitate local participatory projects. We are currently working on a large scale film commission for the BFI and The Box, which will explore local communities after dark. In addition, over the previous two years, we have been researching Plymouth’s Union Street and in particular, it’s largely forgotten cinema history for the Home of Movies Project.

My papers, workshops and films have been published, screened and exhibited internationally, including The Box (UK), Besides The Screen (Brazil), The Atlantic Project (UK), Interstate Gallery, (New York, USA), Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy (Australia), Situated Cinemas (Austria), Bad Video Art Festival (Russia), One Plus One Film Journal (UK), Peckham24, South Kiosk Gallery (UK), The London Lift-Off Film Festival (UK), The River Tamar Project / All About the River Festival (UK), the Supersonic Festival (UK), One Plus One Film Journal (UK), The Guardian (UK), Visible Evidence XIII (USA), NECS (Paris and Prague), KISMIF (Portugal) and British Radical Screens (UK).

Associate Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Allister leads the BA (Hons) Filmmaking programme.

Allister is interested in narrative forms, experimental moving image practice and interdisciplinary approaches, including socially engaged art practices and expanded approaches to filmmaking and cinema.