Laurence Kent is a Digital Film and Television Lecturer at the University of Bristol. In 2020, he completed his Ph.D. in the Film Studies department of King's College London, exploring the metaphysics of Gilles Deleuze's cinematic philosophy. He has been a module convenor at KCL, an associate lecturer at the University of Arts London, and a tutor at MetFilm School. Laurence has published on various topics within film theory and philosophy, from Deleuzian ethics, experimental cinema, Hollywood action film, archiving practices, and anticolonial aesthetics. His articles and book reviews have appeared in Film-Philosophy, Alphaville, Studies in World Cinema, Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Frames Cinema Journal, and Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, amongst others. His current research is on the representation of sapient intelligence in contemporary popular film and the technics of cinema's own form of alien intelligence that makes this possible.