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Film and the Digital Image is BCU鈥檚 first dedicated film research cluster, and a forum where staff, doctoral researchers and external partners collaborate in an interdisciplinary and inclusive manner. The cluster draws out existing scholarship, practice-based research, and industry innovation strengths within Digital Arts and Media at BCU.

The Film and the Digital Image research cluster provides a dynamic forum to support the development of both established and emerging researchers. As BCU鈥檚 first dedicated film research cluster, Film and the Digital Image enables staff, doctoral researchers and external partners to collaborate in an interdisciplinary and inclusive manner. We undertake film-based research and enterprise activities drawing on existing and new scholarship, and innovation within the broadly defined fields of Digital Arts and Media.听

The cluster is underpinned by support from the BFI, as part of its film education partnership with BCU. Cluster members also have extensive links with international film festivals (including the ), university departments, and the wider film and digital image industries. Through these connections, the cluster develops interdisciplinary research interventions in the Midlands, across the UK and internationally.

Areas of activity

• New approaches to national cinema
• The documentary image in regional, national and international contexts
• Creative and technological approaches to practice-based research
• Knowledge exchange and innovation projects that enhance digital image
• partnerships
• Community, third sector and activist film research
• Film festivals, curatorial practices and film-based collections
• Global genre cinema
• Women鈥檚 creative labour in cinema
• Transnational distribution and the streaming economy

Cluster members

• Professor Xavier Mendik听(Cluster lead)
• Professor Valentina Vitali听(Cluster lead)
• Dr Michael Bickerton
• Steve Chamberlain
• Andy Conway听
• Matthew Cusworth听
• Professor Ravi Deepres听
• Meera Darji
• Professor Rajinder Dudrah
• Cathy Easthope听
• Lianne Forbes
• Shaun Magher
• Dr Frank Mannion听
• Joe Miles听
• Nosa Obayiuwana听
• Nick Priest听
• Dr Daniel Sheppard听
• Eugenio Triana
• Kelvin Wong

Postgraduate researchers

• Joel Blackledge

• Thomas Sedgwick

• Samuel Dubois听

External members and partners

• Simone Pyne (British Film Institute)

• Professor Roger Shannon (Visiting Professor in British Cinema Industries)

Cluster members have developed a range of formal partnerships with external organisations in the region, across the UK and internationally. These collaborations underpin many of the cluster鈥檚 research and innovation projects. Current Film & the Digital Image partnerships include:听

• American Genre Film Archive (AKA AGFA [Austin, USA])听

• 探花直播 Royal Ballet (探花直播)

• British Film Institute (London)听

• Cine-Excess International Film Festival (探花直播)听

• Damselfish Productions (London)听

• Hong Kong Baptist University (China)

• University of Kerala (India)听

• Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts (London)听

• Ronkel Media and Education (Mumbai, India)听

• Women in Cinema Collective (Kerala, India)听