Curating the MultiLX Research Team

Released in 2026, this short film by Paul McHale documents MultiLX’s first in-person training meeting, held at the University of Warwick in April 2025. This workshop, which brought the MultiLX team together for the first time, marked a significant moment in the project’s journey, as researchers from across Europe began to build relationships, share perspectives, and reflect collectively on the challenges and responsibilities of doing research in diverse and multilingual settings.

The film focuses on process: the coming together of a large, multilingual and multi-generational research team; the negotiation of roles, identities and expertise; and the uncertainties, hopes and ethical questions that shape collaborative research at its outset. In keeping with MultiLX’s commitment to arts-based and collaborative approaches, the film also reflects on the processes of creation involved in both research and filmmaking, foregrounding the filmmaker’s own reflexive engagement with the project as it unfolds. The film shows the unpredictability of research and its overlap with other creative processes. Moving between filmmaker and researcher, it engages with the ‘new’, ‘scary’, ‘unknown’, ‘vulnerable’, ‘humble’ beginnings of a project, whether arts-based or research-focused. It points to the similarities of the filmmaker and researchers ‘feeling’ their way into knowledge, data, and argumentation.  

Weaving together interviews, workshop activities and reflective narration, Curating the MultiLX Research Team captures our emerging academic, relational and creative practice, offering behind-the-scenes insight into the foundations on which the MultiLX project is built.