Outputs (53)

The killing of George Floyd: A powerful lesson for change (2020)
Digital Artefact

Theories on the use of theatrical esotropia in character design and performance (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Based on content analysis and interviews, this paper will present theories on why the eye focus of realistic or semi-realistic animated characters is deliberately skewed inwards, in medical terms presenting as a convergent squint or esotropia.The ori... Read More about Theories on the use of theatrical esotropia in character design and performance.

From Harryhausen to Aardman: The evolution of stop-motion animation (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduced screening of 'One Million Years B.C.' (1966) and chaired panel discussion with Connor Heaney (Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation) and Merlin Crossingham (Aardman Animations).

'We are women, we are strong': Celebrating the unsung heroines of the miners' strike (2018)
Newspaper / Magazine

Film Premier and Q&A: Making Waves (2015): (2015)
Digital Artefact

Almost 40 years after the 1976 Racial Discrimination Act, 'Making Waves' documents the life stories of first and second-generation Black, British citizens from the African-Caribbean and asks if the 'waves' made by one generation have had an impact on... Read More about Film Premier and Q&A: Making Waves (2015):.

Film Premier and Q&A: Many Rivers to Cross (2013) (2013)
Digital Artefact

'Many Rivers to Cross' is a Heritage Lottery funded film. It tells the story, humorous and emotional in parts, of nine people who migrated to the UK from the Caribbean in the 1950's and 1960's. They travelled with nothing but their suitcases and a fi... Read More about Film Premier and Q&A: Many Rivers to Cross (2013).

‘An object of indecipherable bastardy – a real monster: Homosociality, homoeroticism and generic hybridity in dead man’s shoes’ (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores Shane Meadows's approaches to genre, arguing that hybrid forms of film type are employed in order to underscore the elements of myth which are evident in his work. In particular, it looks at how evocations of the monster weave t... Read More about ‘An object of indecipherable bastardy – a real monster: Homosociality, homoeroticism and generic hybridity in dead man’s shoes’.

‘Craicing the safe: The gangster figure in Dublin cinema’ (2011)
Book Chapter

World Film Locations: Dublin offers an engaging look at the many incarnations of the city onscreen through 50 synopses of the key scenes – either shot or set in Dublin – accompanied by a generous selection of full-colour film stills. Sophisticated ye... Read More about ‘Craicing the safe: The gangster figure in Dublin cinema’.

I am a painter (2011)
Other

I Am A Painter, its title taken from Paul Klee’s quote about the joy of colour, is an aleatoric film of endless duration in which the images and sound are composed according to a simple set of rules. It is a piece about colour and sound, that grew fr... Read More about I am a painter.

Sleep (2010)
Exhibition / Performance

A clip from an original 20 minute video installation, created from a study of sleep and everyday movement.
Funded by Picture This, Bristol Exhibited at the Laban Centre, London.

Original music by Daniel Berridge

https://vimeo.com/106274583

Red (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

Made through a Picture This 'Small Wonders' scheme and funded by Portland Green Productions (http://www.portlandgreen.com/) http://www.picture-this.org.uk/worksprojects/artists/c/sarah-cunliffe
Developed in response to the Powell and Pressburger fi... Read More about Red.

‘WE ARE NOT DANCERS (OBVIOUSLY)’ Sarah Cunliffe on Wood and Harrison’s undancerly video choreographies (2008)
Journal Article

Video artists John Wood and Paul Harrison have been collaborating since 1993 and, as Claire Doherty suggests, they draw on their fine art backgrounds to create formal compositions involving their bodies, objects and their relationships with space and... Read More about ‘WE ARE NOT DANCERS (OBVIOUSLY)’ Sarah Cunliffe on Wood and Harrison’s undancerly video choreographies.

Screenplay: Flesh and the Mirror
Book

A feature-length screenplay adapting Angela Carter's short story 'Flesh and the Mirror', and other semi-autobiographical stories from the Fireworks collection, including 'A Souvenir of Japan', 'The Loves of Lady Purple', 'the Smile of Winter', 'Penet... Read More about Screenplay: Flesh and the Mirror.