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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

Waterlands, the new film by Peter Spence to screen at Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research conference, University of East Anglia

Waterlands which combines archive footage with contemporary interviews to consider the lived experience of climate change in fenland East Anglia has been invited to show at the Tyndall Centre Our Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference, University of East Anglia in September. The UEA is world leading in climate change research and the conference marks the 25th anniversary of the […]

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Professor Virginia Heath wins UK Global Screen Fund Award for research film project

The UK Global Screen Fund announced awards on 26th June for 11 international Co-productions which include ‘She Sings of Murder and Love’. A minority UK co-production with Ireland. The UK producer is Scotland-based Faction North (Grant Keir) who will co-produce with Irish EZ Films (David Clarke and David Power). The character-led documentary feature film will be directed by Virginia Heath, telling the story of a unique Irish […]

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Virginia Heath’s Impact Campaign for ‘In The Flame We Reveal Ourselves’

Professor Virginia Heath has begun an Impact Campaign for her SHRIF funded poetic documentary film, ‘In The Flame We Reveal Ourselves’.  Rendered purely through image and music (by Afterlands), the film is a cinematic meditation on the beauty and fragility of nature, our environmental crisis, and the spirit of resistance.  Performer and environmental activist, Carina Birrell, brings a powerful, almost sculptural, texture […]

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fæthm: explorations in co-curation with the River Dôn 13-16 March 2025

fæthm: explorations in co-curation with the River Dôn Upper Gallery at Kelham Island Museum and The River Dôn  Thursday 13th – Sunday 16th March 2025 Free entry Opening times Thurs: 10-4 Fri: 10-4 Sat: 10-4 Sun: 11-4 Our entanglement with the more-than-human deepens as we iteratively explore co-curation with the River Dôn. In a partnership between Sheffield Hallam University and […]

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Rose Butler presents at the International Conference of Photography and Theory 2024

International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT 2024) Nicosia, Cyprus, 7-9th November Photography has been associated with death since its inception. The invention of photography influenced dramatically how people remember and mourn the dead. The technological advances of photography have also influenced – and are still influencing – how war, conflict, accidents, and atrocities are being documented, circulated and received. Following the […]

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