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Liz is a senior lecturer in Photography and moving image. Her film studies background and ongoing experience as a filmmaker provides students with a wide range of skills and knowledge for work in photographic industry. Liz graduated from Bournemouth Film School and then trained as a researcher, editor and director at the BBC. Since then she has worked as an independent filmmaker directing and producing documentaries and short drama for the BBC, ITV and the UK Film Council. Her films have been supported by the British Council and screened at film festivals around the world. Since completing her MA, her practice has evolved into experimental moving image for the gallery, with exhibitions in York and Bristol.
She co-founded Bath Community Television and continues to work in the community sector as a mentor and workshop facilitator for young filmmakers and women entering the film industry. Liz regularly works with Bristol Old Vic Theatre School directing acting students, as well as Somerset Film and Video and Calling the Shots as a guest speaker and workshop leader on scripting and directing. For the past three years she has taught screenwriting and storyboarding on the BFI funded
Film Academy Bristol course for 16 -25 yr olds, where films have gone on to win awards at young people’s film festivals in Poland.
For the past two years Liz has been invited to speak to Bristol University medical students about her own work and films around mental health issues as part of the
films and psychology course run by Avon and Wiltshire NHS and Bristol Mental Health. Her film Look Up was selected for screening at Exploring Dementia Through
Film conferences in Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol University.
Liz’s practice centres around people, place and our sense of belonging. Often drawn from her own experience, her films tend to be personal and experiential – seeking to capture a feeling or connection to place. She is interested in an inter-disciplinary, archeological approach to filmmaking that encompasses phenomenology, cultural geography and oral history and mental health. A recent return to photography has led her to re-evaluate the image and ways of looking, making process & research methods more important. She is keen to experiment with mixing still and moving image, documentary, drama and archive to a produce more interesting outcomes to her work.
She co-founded Bath Community Television and continues to work in the community sector as a mentor and workshop facilitator for young filmmakers and women entering the film industry. Liz regularly works with Bristol Old Vic Theatre School directing acting students, as well as Somerset Film and Video and Calling the Shots as a guest speaker and workshop leader on scripting and directing. For the past three years she has taught screenwriting and storyboarding on the BFI funded
Film Academy Bristol course for 16 -25 yr olds, where films have gone on to win awards at young people’s film festivals in Poland.
For the past two years Liz has been invited to speak to Bristol University medical students about her own work and films around mental health issues as part of the
films and psychology course run by Avon and Wiltshire NHS and Bristol Mental Health. Her film Look Up was selected for screening at Exploring Dementia Through
Film conferences in Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol University.
Liz’s practice centres around people, place and our sense of belonging. Often drawn from her own experience, her films tend to be personal and experiential – seeking to capture a feeling or connection to place. She is interested in an inter-disciplinary, archeological approach to filmmaking that encompasses phenomenology, cultural geography and oral history and mental health. A recent return to photography has led her to re-evaluate the image and ways of looking, making process & research methods more important. She is keen to experiment with mixing still and moving image, documentary, drama and archive to a produce more interesting outcomes to her work.
- Publications
- Banks, L. (2015) Look Up - A screening and analysis of my practice research into space, time and grief through film. In: Material Environments: Sensing Time and Matter in Digital and Visual Culture, University of Greenwich, London, UK, 24-25 July 2015. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26495
- Banks, L. and Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Bristol Mental Health, Bristol University medical department (2015) Films and psychiatry. In: Films and Psychiatry, Callington Road Hospital, 21 July 2014 & 22 July 2015. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26602
- Banks, L. (2015) Look Up - A screening and analysis of my practice research into the photographic approach to filmmaking. In: Photography in the 21st Century: Philosophy, art & technique, Central St Martins, London, UK, 5-6 June 2015. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26494
- Banks, L. and Film Academy Bristol, British Film Institute, Bristol Old Vic (2014) Scripting and storyboarding your film. In: Scripting and storyboarding your film, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26605
- Banks, L. and The Engine room, Somerset Film and Video (2014) Women into film - writing and directing for the screen. In: Women in Film - writing and directing for the screen., The Engine Room, Somerset film and video, 26 October 2014. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26603
- Banks, L. and Red Brick Arts Centre, Glastonbury, Somerset, Somerset Arts Week (2013) Making films in Somerset. In: Somerset Arts Week, Red Brick Building, Glastonbury, Somerset, UK, 3 October 2013. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26604
- Banks, L. (2013) Look up - exploring grief, landscape and time through film. In: 2nd global conference - Time, space and the body, Mansfield College, Oxford University., 01-03 September 2013. [Submitted] Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26577
- Show/Exhibition
- Banks, L. (2014) Look Up. [Show/Exhibition] Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26521
- Banks, L. (2012) Look Up. [Show/Exhibition] Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26600
- Banks, L. (2010) Home. [Show/Exhibition] Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26599
- Video
- Banks, L. and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (2015) The shooting party. [Video] Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26601
- Banks, L. (2013) LIGHTING UP. [Video] Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26559
- Banks, L. (2012) Look up. [Video] Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/18432
- Banks, L. (2008) Hedgewitch. [Video] Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/15950