Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Made entirely of Scottish film archive, From Scotland With Love is a 75-minute film by award-winning Director and Sheffield Hallam University Professor of Film Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long […]
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Virginia Heath has been awarded the title Professor of Film. The award is very well deserved and in recognition of Virginia’s significant contribution to her disciplinary specialism. Virginia Heath is a writer and director working in the fields of both fiction and documentary film. Her research practice is focused on creating a body of distinctive and internationally recognised films and […]
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Professor Virginia Heath presented a paper with film clips at the Heritage, Community, Archives: Methods, Case Studies, Collaboration conference (12th & 13th June 2023) at Sheffield Hallam University. The paper, ‘Using Archive Fragments To Creatively Reimagine Gaps, Silences and Absences’, was part of the ‘Heritage, Archives and Creative Practice’ Panel on the 13th of June. The presentation is part of […]
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On Friday 18 December, the BBC are broadcasting a documentary by two Sheffield Hallam Professors from the Art & Design Research Centre. The half-hour film, Cigar Box Blues – The Makers of a Revolution, directed by Virginia Heath, Professor of Film, and written by Paul Atkinson, Professor of Design and Design History, portrays the passionate makers and players of cigar box guitars. Many […]
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Professor Virginia Heath‘s BAFTA Nominated feature documentary film, ‘From Scotland With Love’ will screen with a Live Performance of the Score by King Creosote and Band, Aug 11th, 2022 at the Kelvingrove Bandstand in Glasgow. This is a sold-out event and a rare and special live performance of the FSWL score as part of Regular Music’s ‘Summer Nights at the […]
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The ‘Cigar Box Blues: The Makers Of A Revolution’ documentary, directed by Professor Virginia Heath and written by Professor Paul Atkinson is screening on BBC4 at 12.30 pm on Friday 24th June (technically 00.30 am on 25th), this will be the 5th screening of the film on BBC. The documentary will then be on BBC iPlayer for a month. _____________________________________________________________________ Directed by Virginia […]
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The recent REF2021 results confirm the benefits to society, culture and health of practice-based art, design and media research at Sheffield Hallam University. REF has rated the Art, Design & Media Research Centre (ADMRC) and Lab4Living as 100% World-leading or Internationally excellent for impact. The ADMRC and Lab4Living have a well-established track record for practice-based research which is reflected in […]
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Professor Virginia Heath was honoured to recently discover that the legendary Patti Smith, who has always been a profound inspiration, chose ‘Pauper’s Dough’ by King Creosote from “the transcendent Documentary, From Scotland with Love”, as a song she would like to cover. Patti received a thousand song suggestions from her Blog readers and two particularly struck her. Patti writes in […]
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Paul Atkinson, professor of design and design history spoke to BBC Radio Sheffield [listen again from 2:18] about his part in tonight’s BBC 4 documentary about a group of makers and players of cigar box guitars. The half-hour film, Cigar Box Blues – The Makers of a Revolution, directed by Virginia Heath, Professor of Film, and written by Paul Atkinson, Professor of Design and Design […]
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‘Three Chords and the Truth’, a film directed by Professor of Film, Virginia Heath, and Written by Professor of Design and Design History, Paul Atkinson, will screen at the 51st Nashville Film Festival between Thursday 01 and Wednesday 07 October 2020. Find out more about the screening here. Laurels from one of the cultural centres of American Music gives a […]
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