Cathy Greenhalgh is Principal Lecturer in Film and Television in the Media School, London College of Communication. University of the Arts London (UAL).
Originally working as a cinematographer in the film and commercials industries, she has conducted ethnographic research with feature film cinematographers (1995 - 2014 ongoing). She now directs and shoots films with elements of documentary, choreography, animation and ethnography for cinema, gallery and museum spaces.
She co-founded the LCC Film and Phenomena creative laboratory which promoted discussion and collaborative film works with scientists (2006 - 2008). Her research interests and publications centre on collaborative and interdisciplinary creativity, film-making practices and communities of practice, cinematographic phenomena and aesthetics, performativity and narrative.
Recent academic conference papers revolve around ideas of temporality, space, nature, affect, consciousness, light,texture - related to cinematography, documentary, essay film, ethnographic film, dance film, and moving image art installation. In relation to her own film projects she is concerned with textiles, archive, landscape, scientific phenomena, perception, memory, historical re-enactment.
Originally working as a cinematographer in the film and commercials industries, she has conducted ethnographic research with feature film cinematographers (1995 - 2014 ongoing). She now directs and shoots films with elements of documentary, choreography, animation and ethnography for cinema, gallery and museum spaces.
She co-founded the LCC Film and Phenomena creative laboratory which promoted discussion and collaborative film works with scientists (2006 - 2008). Her research interests and publications centre on collaborative and interdisciplinary creativity, film-making practices and communities of practice, cinematographic phenomena and aesthetics, performativity and narrative.
Recent academic conference papers revolve around ideas of temporality, space, nature, affect, consciousness, light,texture - related to cinematography, documentary, essay film, ethnographic film, dance film, and moving image art installation. In relation to her own film projects she is concerned with textiles, archive, landscape, scientific phenomena, perception, memory, historical re-enactment.