Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield Hallam University’s Professor of Film & Media Arts Esther Johnson has had her film Asunder selected for a screening at Sheffield Doc/Fest on Saturday 10 June 2017. For the Doc/Fest listing for this event please see here. Asunder The Light Cinema Free Screen Howard Street Sheffield Saturday 10 June 2017 8PM Admittance free Asunder tells the story of what […]
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SHU’s Professor of Film Professor Virginia Heath has been selected for pitching at The Edinbugh Pitch for her short film We Are All Migrants. We Are All Migrants is a 20-minute experimental archive and music documentary film exploring the theme of European Migration building on the research approach of using ‘cinema as research tool’ to explore and reflect on 20th […]
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Sheffield Hallam University’s Professor of Film & Media Arts Esther Johnson has had her film Asunder nominated for the FOCAL International Awards 2017 in the category of Best Use of Footage in a Factual Production. The FOCAL International Awards celebrate achievement in the use of footage in all variety of genres, across all media platforms plus its restoration. This year’s […]
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The Journal Culture Awards, celebrating the best of North East culture and creativity was held on 11 May at Hexham Abbey. Sheffield Hallam Professor of Film & Media Art Professor Esther Johnson‘s film Asunder was awarded the Best Event Sunderland at the 11th annual ceremony which filled the Abbey with more than 400 people. Read more about the event here. […]
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Esther Johnson, Professor of Film and Media Arts in ADRC, will present a paper on her poetic documentary film Asunder at The Sound Of Memory – Sound-track / Sound-scape at the Whitechapel Gallery on Sunday 23 April 2017. Esther will present as part of the third section of the event, entitled Construction / Reconstruction and Sonic Representation. The Sound of […]
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Echoes of Protest is a collaborative research project by SHU’s Esther Johnson and Debbie Ballin. The Journal of the Oral History Society has published the co-authored journal Echoes of Protest: untold stories of the 1984–1985 UK Miners’ Strike, by Esther and Debbie. It will feature in their Spring 2017 issue. For more than thirty years the Oral History Society has […]
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Abstractions of Holderness is an audio-visual work by Esther Johnson and Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs inspired by Basil Kirchin’s 1970s residency in East Yorkshire. Kirchin, an English drummer and composer, is known as a pioneer of musique concrète and has been described by Brian Eno as, “a founding father of ambient”. Hull: City of Cinema is a […]
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On Wednesday 15 March, Queen of Air will be projected onto the Diamond Building as part of the Sheffield Festival of Science and Engineering event Wall of Women at The Diamond. Projections will be between 6.30PM and 8PM at The Diamond, University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD. No booking is required. When darkness falls, Queen of Air, […]
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Esther Johnson’s new film Abstractions of Holderness to screen with BBC Concert Orchestra as part of Hull 2017. Abstractions of Holderness is an audio-visual work inspired by Basil Kirchin’s 1970s residency in East Yorkshire. The music for the film is scored by Saint Etienne and will premiere during Mind on the Run: The Basil Kirchin Story, a 3-day festival as […]
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Unhomely Street Oberhausen Short Film Festival Thursday 11 May – Tuesday 16 May 2017 Susannah Gent‘s film Unhomely Street, has been selected to premiere at the 63rd International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen. The festival runs from 11 – 16 May 2017. Unhomely Street follows a female protagonist in a state of fugue following a head injury as she wanders […]
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