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[Commlist] Symposium - Surviving and Thriving as a Filmmaker in the University

Fri Apr 26 11:27:38 GMT 2024






*North East Universities Screen Network*

Symposium

*Surviving and Thriving as a Filmmaker in the University*

Culture Lab, Newcastle University

9.45am – 4pm. June 19, 2024

/“For ethnographers I am a filmmaker, and for filmmakers I am an ethnographer”./

Jean Rouch

Being a filmmaker in the University can often feel like being an ‘inbetweener’. Echoing Rouch, we are often made to feel like ‘just’ academics when amongst filmmakers and ‘only’ filmmakers when amongst academics! We find ourselves in a liminal space that invariably works to our disadvantage: be it a lack of understanding of our films as research, administrative systems that don’t support our practice, or pedagogic structures that do not synch with the rhythms of filmmaking.

How can we respond to and mitigate these disadvantages? What strategies can be developed to not only alleviate the felt disadvantages, but to take advantage of our distinctive academic situatedness? Indeed, is there something distinctive and valuable about the films we create by virtue of our academic position?  Perhaps it’s time to embrace our liminality as a creatively productive, important, and an exciting space of filmmaking.

This symposium provides an opportunity for academic filmmakers / filmmaker academics in all our diversity to come together to share our experiences and showcase our films, to find a way to reckon with our academic situatedness so that we not only survive but thrive as filmmakers in the University.

Timetable:

9.45am – 10.00am: *Welcome and Introductions*

10am – 12pm: *Our* *Lived Experiences as Filmmakers in the University *

A series of rapid roundtable discussions focussing on the daily realities of teaching and assessing filmmaking, of often navigating university protocols around ethics, risk assessments and funding, of developing relationships with the film and creative industries.

1pm – 2pm: *Panel discussion on Filmmaking as Research and Knowledge Production*

An invited panel of speakers**discuss the status of their films as research and creative forms of knowledge production.  Panellist: *Ellie Land*, acclaimed animation director and formerly Senior Lecturer in Animation at Northumbria University.*Esther Johnson*, artist and documentary filmmaker, Professor of Film and Media Arts at Sheffield Hallam University. *Christo Wallis*, filmmaker, co-founder of the Star and Shadow cinema in Newcastle, and Lecturer at Teesside University

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2.30pm – 4pm: *Celebration of Practice*

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A curated showcase celebrating the quality and diversity of our practices with excerpts of films.

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4.00pm – 4.15pm: *Closing thoughts and next steps*

The symposium is intended for filmmakers, including PGR students, with all levels of experiences. We encourage colleagues who have an interest in filmmaking as research to attend. Our aim is to initiate a dialogue between filmmakers to better understand how we can all survive and thrive as filmmakers in the university.

The symposium is free to attend but registration is required. To book your place please register below.

*Book your place*:

_https://forms.office.com/e/n90i3prfb2 <https://forms.office.com/e/n90i3prfb2>_

*Submit a Proposal to Lived Experience Roundtable (deadline 19 May)*:

_https://forms.office.com/e/kKPB6yk8xT <https://forms.office.com/e/kKPB6yk8xT>_

*Submit a Film to Celebration of Practice **(deadline 19 May)**:*

_https://forms.office.com/e/ExPG7MWcX9 <https://forms.office.com/e/ExPG7MWcX9>_

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or would like any more information.

*‘Surviving and Thriving’ Organising Team*

Lawrence Brannon (Sunderland University)

Ian Fenton (Teesside University)

Lucy Jolly (Newcastle University)

Ian McDonald (Newcastle University)

Cecilia Stenbom (Northumbria University)

Surviving and Thriving in the University is an initiative from The *North East Universities Screen Network* (NEUSN). This is a new body that seeks to facilitate collaboration between staff and students from the five NE Universities (Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside) in subject areas related to screen-based production and industries. We seek to maximise the potential benefits of joint research, teaching, employability activities, skills development and income generation, in support of regional and national screen sector partnership, resilience and growth.

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