Documentary Film Centre
About the Centre for Production and Research of Documentary Film (CPRD)
The newly established Centre is developing a unique approach to Documentary study through production, academic research, teaching and screenings.
The centre actively seeks to expand the field of documentary film studies by bringing together researchers,documentary filmmakers, PhD research students and research fellows. The centre looks to redefine the documentary discourse, its history and its relationship to politics and art through the investigation of the relationships between ideology, history and culture and the apparatus of artistic production.
Currently the Centre pays particular attention to the study areas of Visual Anthropology and Human Rights, Arts Documentary and Documentary Archive, whilst extending the range of production and research into other fields of Documentary film study.
PROJECTS
AHRC Genocide and Genre
performing mass-violence and its histories -
filmmaking with perpetrators and survivors.
The project develops innovative filmmaking methods to explore peoples memory, narratives and performance of acts of genocidal violence.
AHRC Arts on Film ArchiveThe archive establishes a complete database of the Arts Council Documentary Film collection, and a digital viewing copy of every surviving film. Find out more on http://artsonfilm.wmin.ac.uk/
STAFF
- Prof. Joram ten Brink (Director)
- Rosie Thomas
- Jane Thorburn
- Peter Hort
- Stuart Mitchel
- Tianqi Yu
RESEARCH FELLOWS
- Joshua Oppenheimer
- John Wyver
RESEARCH STUDENTS
- Rebecca Savage
- Perla Carillo
- Simon Hipkins
- Adina Bradeanu
- Yael Friedman
- Max Schleser
- Robert Sternberg
- Aikatarina Gegisian
- Placido Munoz Moran
Are you interested in documentary film studies and research? To find out more about or undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes, please use one of the links below: