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Centre for Screen Studies

Practice

The Centre for Screen Studies is committed to exploring and developing the links between practice, theory and research. Proposals for practice-based doctoral research projects are also enthusiastically welcomed. The Centre is affiliated to the Institute for Cultural Practices at the University of Manchester that provides a platform for innovative research, postgraduate teaching and professional development which engages with cultural producers and organisations in Greater Manchester and beyond.

Screen practice research in the Centre is diverse and includes

  • The intersections between screen and visual cultures
  • Conceptualising the screen audience
  • Exhibition and curatorship
  • Exploring new relationships between the soundtrack and imagetrack
  • Developing work that challenges sensory hierarchies in western culture
  • Documentary film techniques in the borderland between fact and fiction
  • Combinations of improvisational cinema and improvised acting
  • Crossovers between applied theatre and participatory video
bollywood

Bollywood Stills (Rajinder Dudrah 2008)

– an exhibition about the use of photo stills in Bollywood film publicity

the cairn

The Cairn (David Butler 2005)

– this project was a sixty-minute installation in collaboration with the composer and jazz musician John Surman.

transfiction

Transfiction & Drama Queens (Johannes Sjöberg 2008)

The research project considers if the largely unexplored genre of ethnofictions, as described by visual anthropologist Jean Rouch, offers means of integrating a hybrid study within drama and ethnography.

nothing can stop usNothing Can Stop Us! (Johannes Sjöberg 2008)

The research practice is concerned with film genres using documentary techniques to produce dramas where improvisational cinema is combined with improvised acting, blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction.

long time no seeLong Time No See (Johannes Sjöberg 2001)

was produced as a part of a Masters Degree in Visual Anthropology at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, exploring reflexivity in ethnographic filmmaking.

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