Past EVENTS
September Higher Dynamic Range Laboratory held at Encounters 2014 - An Advanced Innovation Laboratory in which we achieved some of the worlds first HDR Capture and Display.
September: Symposium on the idea of Radicalism in Moving Image Practice - is radicalism possible in a commodified world? One day event.
September: A Journey through Radicalism at Encounters 2014: As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival has invited the Centre for Moving Image Research to co-curate a season of films exploring the theme of radicalism in association with the Bristol Radical Film Festival and the Radical Film Network.
June 2014 Cinematographer Ben Smithard was in conversation at the Bargehouse in London with supporting clips with Prof Terry Flaxton of UWE’s Centre for Moving Image Research about his latest film Belle (2013) and other films: Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013), My Week with Marilyn ( 2011), The Damned United (2009) and next years release of the Best Marigold Hotel 2 (2015). He has also worked on commercials and television (The Trip 2010) and will in this discussion outline his creative influences and speak about how he established a career in the British film industry. This talk was part of a FREE series of events held during the London degree show for The University of the West of England, Bristol of its Filmmaking and Creative Media, Photography, Animation courses at the Bargehouse, South Bank, London SE1 9PH 19th – 22nd June 2014.
May 2014 - Dr Steve Presence Presented Conference Paper at the International Communication Association's 64th Annual Conference in Seattle, Visual Activism(s): Tactics, Technologies and Style
May 2014, Emeritus Professor UCLAN Chris Meigh Andrews and Visiting Professor at UWE: Provenance in Art and creating Art as an Academic. RWA. Bristol
25th March 2014 Talk: 'How to Price Your Work'. Seminar given by Dr Sarah Sparke at Delamore Arts, Devon.
15th March 2014 Radical Readings/Radical Texts symposium on March 15th 2014 at Canterbury Christ Church University.
Drs Presence and Sparke present papers.
3rd - 9th March 2014
The Bristol Radical Film Festival took place from the 3rd to the 9th March. Find out more at: www.bristolradicalfilmfestival.org.uk - see events
28th February - 2nd March Oxford Community Filmmaking, Bristol Radical Film Festival invited to preset.
27th February 2014 Chris Meigh-Andrews 'A History of Video Art; Second Edition will be launch at EyeBeam in New York, Terry Flaxton to sit on Panel
18th February 2014 - 16.00, Room OD55, Bower Ashton Campus
Creative Media Research Group/Centre for Moving Images Present:
SCREENING & DISCUSSION OF JOHN AKOMFRAH’S THE STUART HALL PROJECT (2013)
7th February 2014: CML Camera Tests with Geoff Boyle, 6th and 7th February taking place at UWE with CMIR - first camera tests worldwide involving a university. The results are now available on the CML website (the industry's 'go-to' site for information and discussion) at http://www.cinematography.net/UWE/index.html
3rd Feb 2014. Talk: Professor Duncan Petrie, York University: The construction of FIlm Schools form 1919 to the Present
September 2013: Roberto Schaefer ASC, AIC Retrospective at Encounters - see video of event
July 2013: ISEA 2013, Sydney Australia, Professor Flaxton chaired a panel on Imaging Capabilities of the Future, taking part were Scott McQuire: School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia and Leon Gurevitch: School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Flaxton also presented a paper on The Future of the Moving Image
September: Symposium on the idea of Radicalism in Moving Image Practice - is radicalism possible in a commodified world? One day event.
September: A Journey through Radicalism at Encounters 2014: As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival has invited the Centre for Moving Image Research to co-curate a season of films exploring the theme of radicalism in association with the Bristol Radical Film Festival and the Radical Film Network.
June 2014 Cinematographer Ben Smithard was in conversation at the Bargehouse in London with supporting clips with Prof Terry Flaxton of UWE’s Centre for Moving Image Research about his latest film Belle (2013) and other films: Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013), My Week with Marilyn ( 2011), The Damned United (2009) and next years release of the Best Marigold Hotel 2 (2015). He has also worked on commercials and television (The Trip 2010) and will in this discussion outline his creative influences and speak about how he established a career in the British film industry. This talk was part of a FREE series of events held during the London degree show for The University of the West of England, Bristol of its Filmmaking and Creative Media, Photography, Animation courses at the Bargehouse, South Bank, London SE1 9PH 19th – 22nd June 2014.
May 2014 - Dr Steve Presence Presented Conference Paper at the International Communication Association's 64th Annual Conference in Seattle, Visual Activism(s): Tactics, Technologies and Style
May 2014, Emeritus Professor UCLAN Chris Meigh Andrews and Visiting Professor at UWE: Provenance in Art and creating Art as an Academic. RWA. Bristol
25th March 2014 Talk: 'How to Price Your Work'. Seminar given by Dr Sarah Sparke at Delamore Arts, Devon.
15th March 2014 Radical Readings/Radical Texts symposium on March 15th 2014 at Canterbury Christ Church University.
Drs Presence and Sparke present papers.
3rd - 9th March 2014
The Bristol Radical Film Festival took place from the 3rd to the 9th March. Find out more at: www.bristolradicalfilmfestival.org.uk - see events
28th February - 2nd March Oxford Community Filmmaking, Bristol Radical Film Festival invited to preset.
27th February 2014 Chris Meigh-Andrews 'A History of Video Art; Second Edition will be launch at EyeBeam in New York, Terry Flaxton to sit on Panel
18th February 2014 - 16.00, Room OD55, Bower Ashton Campus
Creative Media Research Group/Centre for Moving Images Present:
SCREENING & DISCUSSION OF JOHN AKOMFRAH’S THE STUART HALL PROJECT (2013)
7th February 2014: CML Camera Tests with Geoff Boyle, 6th and 7th February taking place at UWE with CMIR - first camera tests worldwide involving a university. The results are now available on the CML website (the industry's 'go-to' site for information and discussion) at http://www.cinematography.net/UWE/index.html
3rd Feb 2014. Talk: Professor Duncan Petrie, York University: The construction of FIlm Schools form 1919 to the Present
September 2013: Roberto Schaefer ASC, AIC Retrospective at Encounters - see video of event
July 2013: ISEA 2013, Sydney Australia, Professor Flaxton chaired a panel on Imaging Capabilities of the Future, taking part were Scott McQuire: School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia and Leon Gurevitch: School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Flaxton also presented a paper on The Future of the Moving Image