Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Please join us on Wednesday 21 June between 1300-1400 for our next CCRI-wide seminar as part of the Culture & Creativity Research Institute Seminar Series, where we will be hearing from the Art, Design & Media Research Centre’s Peter Spence. The Antonioni House This presentation will discuss a research journey that began with a visit to a now dilapidated villa, La Cupola, […]
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Peter Spence will deliver his paper ‘Re-considering History and Narrative Through the Short Factual Film The Archive (UK 2018)’ via live stream at the The 12th Asian Conference on Media, Communication & Film (MediAsia2021) in Kyoto, Japan in November. The paper reflects on tensions and dialogues between historical enquiry and narrative story-telling, using the case study of the short […]
Read moreIt is only in relatively recent years that it has come to light that the visionary Italian film-maker Michelangelo Antonioni commissioned and built a quite unique and extraordinary holiday villa – La Cupola – on the island of Sardinia. Working closely with the architect Dante Bini, who pioneered the Binishell dome system of building, Antonioni completed the villa in the early […]
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The Archive, a film by Peter Spence, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Production at Sheffield Hallam University has been selected for screenings later this month at DOC NYC, now the largest documentary film festival in the USA, and the UK Jewish Film Festival in London. Peter will introduce the film and participate in a Q&A at both events. The film […]
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The short film The Archive – directed by Peter Spence, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Production at Sheffield Hallam University – has been selected for screening at the Moscow Jewish Film Festival where it is also in competition for Best Documentary Short Film. The Festival was founded in 2015 as the first of its kind in Russia and being held annually ever since. It […]
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Anti-Communism in the Twentieth Century: An International Historical Perspective Wednesday 29 – Friday 31 May 2019 Queen’s University Belfast Find the schedule here. The aim of this conference is to examine the various facets of anti-communism throughout the twentieth century irrespective of focusing on any particular geographical region or limited to a specific sub-field in the study of history. By […]
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Speaker: Peter Spence (Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Production) Title: The film-maker as “participant-witness and an active fabricator of meaning” – developing an archive based feature documentary film. In this seminar Peter will discuss practical, creative and conceptual considerations in developing his short film The Archive into a feature length documentary. Screened at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest and Cannes Short Film […]
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Set in McCarthy-era America and compiled entirely from archive materials, The Archive tells the incredible story of lawyer David Drucker who was pursued for decades by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Always travelling with a Bolex 16mm camera, David captured stunning footage on his travels around the world. However, FBI agents were never far behind also documenting his every move. […]
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