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Vanishing Point - celebrating Duncan Whitley's residency at the University of Warwick

In the academic year 2022-23, Film and Television Studies/the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Culture were delighted to host Duncan Whitley as our Filmmaker in ResidenceLink opens in a new window. During his residency, Duncan worked with academics from around the university, and particularly the Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration Network and community partners Inini. His work was supported by the IAS, the Connecting Cultures GRP, Warwick Institute of Engagement, as well as the SCAPVC. To celebrate the end of Duncan’s residency we are organising a screening of Duncan’s recent and developing work (including the work that has come out of this residency), along with a Q&A with Duncan and some time to reflect on the place of artists in residence in the university.

The event takes place in the Faculty of Arts Building’s cinema (FAB 0/21) on the University of Warwick central campus on Thursday 30th November from 6-8.30pm, including a drinks reception in the Agora in the FAB.

More information can be found on the event here: Vanishing Point (warwick.ac.uk)Link opens in a new window

A booking form can be found here (all invitees need to book their free of charge places at this event): Vanishing Point Bookings (warwick.ac.uk)Link opens in a new window

Mon 30 Oct 2023, 13:30 | Tags: Events practice

Film and Television Students' Success in Digital Arts Lab Student Showcase

Students from the department have had great success in this years video competition run as part of the Digital Arts Lab's Student Showcase.

Fri 22 May 2020, 12:27 | Tags: media undergraduate staff teaching News practice awards

Michael Pigott speaks about sound, cinema and field recording at University of York

The dept’s Michael Pigott is giving a Research Seminar at Dept. of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York this Wednesday (9 May) titled 'Sounds of the Projection Box: Liner Notes for a Phonographic Method'. The seminar will take place at 12.30pm in room TFTV109. This seminar will focus on research that emerged from The Projection Project, and leads to the release of the Sounds of the Projection Box album, which comes out in July.
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Sounds of the Projection Box: Liner Notes for a Phonographic Method.

Abstract: In order to investigate, document and analyse the soundscape of the analogue projection box, before it passes into history, a series of audio recordings was made within functioning boxes, a selection of which will be released as an ‘album’ on the Gruenrekorder label in 2018. The recordings, made in UK boxes that maintain both 35mm film projection and digital projection, also capture the shifting sonic texture of this environment as it changes from primarily analogue to primarily digital operation. This paper will explore the role of phonographic field recording as a practical methodology within a film historical research project (the UK AHRC funded Projection Project), which investigates the role of the film projectionist and cinematic projection throughout the history of cinema exhibition in the UK. Through an analysis of both the recordings themselves, and the experience of making the recordings, it will extract some observations regarding the character, history and culture of the projection box as a lived environment and workplace. Just as cinema-goers seldom get to see inside this hidden room at the back of the auditorium, these sound recordings also reveal it to be a sound-proofed box, a noisy environment in which the interface between operator and machine takes audible form, in which noise of one sort indicates smooth operation, while another sort indicates faults that need to be addressed. It will consider the legibility of noise and propose that the relationship between projectionist and machine is significantly aural as well as visual and tactile.


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