Co-founder and director of CMAP [Collaborative Media Advocacy Platform] and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London.
As a founding member of the filmmaking collaboration, Vision Machine, and a producer of the Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA-winning documentary, The Act of Killing, he has been developing innovative approaches to documentary practice as a means of enabling critical reflection on histories of political violence and challenges to official impunity.
As project director of the Human City Project, a community-driven media, architecture, planning and human rights initiative in Nigeria, Michael is exploring design processes through which violently marginalised urban communities might gain a greater measure of control over their representation and the shaping of their cities.
Michael has curated major programmes at the National Film Theatre, Tate Modern, Architecture Association and Institute for Contemporary Art, London; and sat on international film festival juries.
Michael lives and works in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
