Tag: Film

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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No Bounds Festival 11 – 13 October 2024: Programme

Sheffield Hallam partners with No Bounds to showcase world-leading research in culture and creativity. No Bounds festival returns to venues across Sheffield from the 11-13 October 2024, featuring new installations from artist-researchers at Sheffield Hallam University. This series of commissions is entitled Entanglement, Commons and Cultural Mycelium, curated and produced by Amy Carter Gordon, Innovation Manager. Associate producer: Lauren McConnell, […]

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Star Nhà Ease: Dust & Metal + Q&A – Showroom Workstation, Friday 26 July

Still from Dust & Metal by Esther Johnson

Dust & Metal is a creative documentary feature film combining archive film, newly shot footage and contemporary music, bringing unfamiliar stories of Vietnam past and present to the screen for the first time. Stepping away from Hollywood’s portrayals of the American/Vietnam War, Dust & Metal offers an unorthodox perspective of Vietnam told through the lens of the country’s ubiquitous mode of transport: […]

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Sheldon Hall’s new book ‘Armchair Cinema: A History of Feature Films on British Television’ will be published by Edinburgh University Press on 30 June

Since broadcast television first emerged to challenge the cinema as a form of public entertainment, more people have seen films on TV than by any other means, including the cinema itself. Feature films created to be viewed on the big screen were initially withheld from TV by the film industry. But from the mid-1960s, thousands of films have been shown […]

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

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Overspill: Presences, Processes and Perspectives – Thursday 2 May 2024

All warmly invited to this in conversation event with live artist and movement practitioner Virginia Kennard. This event is part of the research seminar series Overspill: Presences, Processes & Perspectives hosted by Dr Sophie Swoffer (Lecturer in Performance) and Sheffield Hallam University. When: 2nd of May 2024 Where: Online Overspill #5’s featured artist is Virginia Kennard ! About Virginia Virginia Kennard is an explicit body performance/live […]

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WEDNESDAY 20 March 2024 – ‘OVERSPILL: PRESENCES, PROCESSES, PERSPECTIVES’ – In conversation with performance artist Nando Messias

All are warmly invited to this in conversation with Nando Messias. This event is part of the research seminar series Overspill: Presences, Processes & Perspectives hosted at Sheffield Hallam University by Dr Sophie Swoffer (Lecturer in Performance). __________________________________ Nando Messias’ work straddles performance art, dance and theatre. Their performances combine beautiful images with a fierce critique of gender, visibility and violence. Nando has […]

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Professor Lise Autogena exhibiting in the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton

Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld still

Professor Lise Autogena will exhibit her and Joshua Portway’s video installation Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld (2016) as part of the major retrospective exhibition Pia Arke: Silences and Stories at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 16 January – 11 May 2024. The exhibition includes film works that examine environmental issues and colonial legacy within present-day Greenland by contemporary artists working in various contexts across Greenland […]

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Off The Shelf: Researchers from CCRI contribute to the UK’s largest Humanities Festival, 13-29 October 2023

Off the Shelf Festival of Words, one of the most well-known and loved literary festivals in the UK, will return to Sheffield for its 32nd edition from 13- 29 October, bringing together the best of local, regional, and international literary talent for the 2023 programme of events. Delivered by the University of Sheffield, this year’s vibrant and diverse festival will […]

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Updates from TC McCormack – October 2023

Most Objects Go Unseen (2023) TC McCormack’s film: Most Objects Go Unseen (2023), is featured in the exhibition: ENCORE & EN-CORPS, at the Forum Exposition Bonlieu et Baladoir de Bonlieu Scène Nationale, in Annecy, France. Open: 29th September to 22nd October 2023. Part of the ImagesPassages International Festival. Most Objects Go Unseen is a filmic investigation that considers our human […]

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