Hall has worked as a film curator, programming independent and experimental Japanese, Chinese, and Southeast Asian work. In 2004-2005, he co-curated the 5-program JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film & Video, 1955-now series, the largest overseas program of Japanese experimental filmmaking. JPEX toured six North American cities and was also screened at the National Film Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. Hall also participates as a Los Angeles-based supporting curator for the China On-Screen Biennial. Hall’s research addresses sexuality and psychoanalysis in Japanese mid-century experimental film and histories of male erotism in Japanese photography. Currently, he is editing a volume dedicated to the work of Japanese photographer Yato Tamotsu.