Outputs (28)

‘Britain’s first media centre’: A history of Bristol’s Watershed cinema, 1964-1998 (2019)
Journal Article

This article examines the genesis and development of the UK’s Watershed Cinema and Digital Creativity Centre. Established in 1982, Watershed was both the first full-time multi-screen independent cinema outside London and the first to integrate exhibi... Read More about ‘Britain’s first media centre’: A history of Bristol’s Watershed cinema, 1964-1998.

Repair Acts (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Join Teresa Dillon (Professor of City Futures/Bristol) and Amanortey Kisseih (Accra/Vienna) for a conversation on how artists are producing 'urgent eco-critical stories' that reimagine repair and its associated cultures. Positioned within debates on... Read More about Repair Acts.

Improvisation as a research methodology: Exploring links between filmmakers’ practice and traditions of enquiry across the academy (2019)
Journal Article

This article concentrates on one form of creative practice, improvisation, considering how it has been used as an experimental method within filmmaking as well as in research enquiry. Drawing on my professional experience in the field of narrative fi... Read More about Improvisation as a research methodology: Exploring links between filmmakers’ practice and traditions of enquiry across the academy.

An invisible army: The role of freelance labour in Bristol’s film and television industries (2019)
Report

The purpose of this report is to complement current statistical data on freelance labour by providing a detailed, qualitative portrait of how freelancers negotiate precarious careers within specific regional contexts. It is based on a one-year resear... Read More about An invisible army: The role of freelance labour in Bristol’s film and television industries.

Relationships at risk: Family migration, regulation and communication (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reflects on the findings of a research study investigating the communications practices of partners and families geographically separated due to restrictive UK immigration controls. The study examined the nature and effects of cross-border... Read More about Relationships at risk: Family migration, regulation and communication.

Understanding, capturing, and assessing value in collaborative design research (2019)
Journal Article

The collection of papers in this special issue respond to a tension between the broadening scope, scale and heterogeneity of collaborative design research, and an ever-growing demand from funders and regulatory organisations for the measurement and b... Read More about Understanding, capturing, and assessing value in collaborative design research.

Function / Fiction (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

Exhibition of international artists. Function/Fiction probes artistic practices that draw literally on the utilitarian images saturating our environment.

Freelance networks, trade unions and below-the-line solidarity in regional film and television clusters: An interview with the Bristol editors network (2019)
Journal Article

This article consists of an introduction and extended interview transcript conducted with several members of the Bristol Editors’ Network (BEN), an organization established in May 2015 to support the large community of editors that work in and around... Read More about Freelance networks, trade unions and below-the-line solidarity in regional film and television clusters: An interview with the Bristol editors network.