Outputs (27)

Adivasi life and folklore event (2021)
Digital Artefact

Seral Murmu is an Adivasi filmmaker from Jharkhand in India whose films draw on oral Adivasi narratives, magical realism and experimental cinematography. His film Sondhayni (2019), for example, is a modern folktale that critiques the exploitation and... Read More about Adivasi life and folklore event.

Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The environmental crisis, inequality, anti-trans discrimination and racism are some of the most pressing issues of our times. Can artists credibly claim engage with pressing issues? When does art become a form of activism? Why might we need arts ac... Read More about Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices.

Images and places - Sense as surfacing (2021)
Thesis

A practice research project exploring onto-epistemology produced through experimental located moving image practice in concrescence with the cinematic thought of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). There are two central site-related photomedia arts p... Read More about Images and places - Sense as surfacing.

Divided by Law (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this talk, Dr Emma Agusita and Dr Katie Davies discuss their research project in which film was used to explore and bear witness to the experiences of binational families and couples trying to cope with the UK’s hostile immigration environment. Ca... Read More about Divided by Law.

Inside Cinema Shorts: 80. Cary Grant (2021)
Digital Artefact

How a working class boy from Bristol became one of the brightest stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, the height of silver-screen sophistication in films ranging from His Girl Friday and An Affair to Remember, to Bringing Up Baby and North By Northw... Read More about Inside Cinema Shorts: 80. Cary Grant.

Audience as co-writers: Using conversational AI to deliver audience agency in a participatory drama (2021)
Journal Article

Lander offers a glimpse of the elusive holy grail for participatory dramatists; a way to offer audience members a role within the narrative and to give them genuine agency over events and even the outcome.
He describes the use of a “conversational a... Read More about Audience as co-writers: Using conversational AI to deliver audience agency in a participatory drama.

Writing film industry history (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides a critical overview of the main ways in which film industry history has been formulated and described. It argues that any account must address three basic questions: (i) how film industry history has been defined and delimited (... Read More about Writing film industry history.

Rethinking cultural and creative entrepreneurship education (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

For a number of creative graduates, self-employment, micro-entrepreneurship and freelancing is the main pathway to a career in the cultural and creative industries (CCI). In response, creative degrees have adapted their curriculum to include knowledg... Read More about Rethinking cultural and creative entrepreneurship education.

And some of us are silenced (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In Mangrove the first of the Small Axe films, bio-chemist student Althea says “We need to challenge the system… We mustn’t be victims but protagonists of our stories and what better way of representing ourselves but self-representing ourselves.” A bo... Read More about And some of us are silenced.

The transmission of divine light (2021)
Book Chapter

Charlotte Crofts writes about her memories of cinema-going growing up in Bristol and beyond.

The maternal flaneuse: Using sensory visual autoethnography to document the experiences of early motherhood in place (2021)
Thesis

In this thesis I have documented my sensory experiences of early motherhood in relation to the places in which they were experienced. This was achieved through mixed media practices of observational filmmaking; documentary photography sound re... Read More about The maternal flaneuse: Using sensory visual autoethnography to document the experiences of early motherhood in place.

The digital resurrection of Margaret Thatcher: Creative, technological and legal dilemmas in the use of deepfakes in screen drama (2021)
Journal Article

This article develops from the findings of an interdisciplinary research project that has linked film practice research with computer science and law, in an exercise that seeks to digitally resurrect Margaret Thatcher to play herself in a contemporar... Read More about The digital resurrection of Margaret Thatcher: Creative, technological and legal dilemmas in the use of deepfakes in screen drama.

Can you hear me now (2021)
Report

Sound is one of the most evocative storytelling devices we have. Never more so than in immersive storytelling, where sound plays so many key roles in the construction of narrative, the creation of presence, the development of an emotional landscape a... Read More about Can you hear me now.

Roots/Routes Series: The Important Role of Black Studies (2021)
Digital Artefact

Drawing inspiration from Paul Gilroy, this series reimagines the exploration of Black lives taking place in the local community. It arises from current conversations about how we write, reflect and create as Black people working in and around Black s... Read More about Roots/Routes Series: The Important Role of Black Studies.

Roots/Routes Series: Black Thought, Imagination and Intellectual Presence (2021)
Digital Artefact

Drawing inspiration from Paul Gilroy, this series reimagines the exploration of Black lives taking place in the local community. It arises from current conversations about how we write, reflect and create as Black people working in and around Black s... Read More about Roots/Routes Series: Black Thought, Imagination and Intellectual Presence.

Roots/Routes Series: Community Organising and Creative Practice in Nottingham (2021)
Digital Artefact

Drawing inspiration from Paul Gilroy, this series reimagines the exploration of Black lives taking place in the local community. It arises from current conversations about how we write, reflect and create as Black people working in and around Black s... Read More about Roots/Routes Series: Community Organising and Creative Practice in Nottingham.

Roots/Routes Series: Why Research? (2021)
Digital Artefact

Drawing inspiration from Paul Gilroy, this series reimagines the exploration of Black lives taking place in the local community. It arises from current conversations about how we write, reflect and create as Black people working in and around Black s... Read More about Roots/Routes Series: Why Research?.

Roots/Routes Series: Our Story (2021)
Digital Artefact

Drawing inspiration from Paul Gilroy, this series reimagines the exploration of Black lives taking place in the local community. It arises from current conversations about how we write, reflect and create as Black people working in and around Black s... Read More about Roots/Routes Series: Our Story.

South West Creative Technology Network - Final report (2021)
Report

This report highlights the research and development conducted during the 3-year South West Creative Technology Network. It outlines the creative knowledge exchange methodology developed through the programme and provides case studies of our Immersion... Read More about South West Creative Technology Network - Final report.

The 360° Gaze: Immersions in Media, Society and Culture (2021)
Book

The 360° Gaze is the first comprehensive study that traces immersive experiences across a wide range of media and cultural practices in postmodern culture. With its interdisciplinary methodology, this book reveals the intersections between immersive... Read More about The 360° Gaze: Immersions in Media, Society and Culture.