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Susannah Gent’s ‘Psychotel 2’ at Wollaton Street Studios, Nottingham, 03 – 27 June 2024

31/05/2024

Psychotel 2 is a cinematic installation project exploring the uncanny. The exhibition employs elements from cinema’s supernatural horror genres; bizarre interpretations of psychoanalysis; and philosophical investigations into the structure of identity. Visitors are subjected to slow nuanced arrangements of objects, kaleidoscopic sequences of images, filmic topologies of thought, and lightly veiled filth; in order to release the uncanny’s power to […]

Virginia Heath’s ‘Mae West – Boxer In A Corset’ at the 31st Inside Out film festival

19/05/2021

Copyright Faction North 2021. Dannie Harris as Mae West. Variety Exclusive: Inside Out Reveals Finance Forum Projects and Exec Participants. Professor Virginia Heath’s hybrid documentary Mae West – Boxer In A Corset announced as one of the selected projects. May 18th, 2021: Inside Out, Canada’s largest 2SLGBTQ+ film festival and single largest promoter and distributor of 2SLGBTQ+ content in Canada, has […]

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“How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” Dr James Fenwick’s interview on iHeartRadio’s podcast

09/12/2020

Dr James Fenwick, senior lecturer in media studies and an expert on the life and work of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, has been interviewed on the Lolita podcast by iHeartRadio (1:03:08) about the impact and legacy of Lolita which has sparked infinite discussion in the 65 years since its release, including the 1962 film adaptation directed by Kubrick.

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The role of public art – Esther Johnson’s Ships in the Sky project

02/12/2020

Four years ago when BHS went into administration and the Hull store – one of the largest in the chain – closed its doors for the last time, Esther Johnson knew she had to act quickly. Esther, artist, filmmaker and professor of film and media arts at Sheffield Hallam University has been speaking to the Yorkshire Post about her Ships in […]

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