Hello! My name is Lauren Spohn. I’m a Rhodes Scholar, writer, and filmmaker pursuing a DPhil in Philosophical Theology at Oriel College, Oxford. Besides reading/writing/adventuring, I also enjoy running long distances and flying small planes.

Dinner with Dinosaurs - What’s the story of progress in a secular age? (The New Atlantis)

On Dentistry - Tongues can lie about the nature of things. Can teeth? (Genealogies of Modernity)

Out of Shadows - A night walk with saints. (The Catholic Herald)

The Myths of Meritocracy - When the ladder wobbles. (The American Oxonian)

A World Lit up in Wonder - A conversion story. (The Tablet)

Midnight in Lviv - The story of Ukriane’s American exiles. (Lviv Now)

Star Tours - The history and future of space tourism. (Symposeum)

The Outset Island Effect -The phenomenology of game music. (With a Terrible Fate)

Proficiency Test - When the alternator fails—6,000 feet above the desert floor. (Air Facts)

Social Science and Other Miraculous Signs - Reading the stats of the times. (The Harvard Ichthus)

Footgolf: The American Sport - See! Americans can play sports with our feet! (The Harvard Crimson)

Top Gun vs James Bond on the Myths of Progress - When should heroes retire? (GenMod)

The Fun of It - Amelia Earhart lands at the US Capitol. (Ninety-Nines Magazine)

“Can Beauty Save the World?” Talk at St Patrick’s SoHo, London. (Apr 2024)

“Meet the Game Analysts." A conversation about philosophy and video games with the team of With a Terrible Fate. (Jan 2021)

Absolution (2022)

Writer/Director

A man sees his therapist for help with a difficult problem and leaves with mixed results.

A Wonders in the Dark Production

12 Film Festival Selections (US/Foreign)

More projects in development…