In this hands-on direct animation workshop, you will make your mark with paints, pens, bleach, scalpels and even old letraset transfers on a length of 16mm film stock – clear and black film leader, or even old archive 16mm films, which you will be able to re-author.
Lecturers and Imperfect Cinema hosts, Dr Allister Gall from Media Arts, Plymouth University and Dan Paolantonio, Film, Plymouth College of Art, are on hand to guide you through the creative collaborative process. This workshop is recommended for those aged between 16-18 years old.
What is the most revolutionary invention in history?
Immerse yourself in this explosive arena, which will be host to five expert Plymouth University academics and a pitch battle to win the title of ‘most revolutionary invention’. Which will come out top is up to you, when you cast your vote after enjoying some fascinating, compelling and passionate arguments in this lively debate.
Paper – James Daybell, Professor of Early Modern British History Photography – Jody Patterson, Associate Professor Art History The transistor – Alexis Kirke, Senior Research Fellow in Computer...
Bryony Gillard will lead a creative writing workshop exploring relationships between peripheral landscapes, female experience and otherness. Through a series of performative exercises, we will collectively explore spaces between poetry, prose, visual art and autobiography.
This workshop is aimed at people identifying as female or non-binary who have an interest in writing — no previous experience is necessary.
Join this visual storytelling workshop (including narrative, cinematography, composition, editing and sound design) on accessible digital technology. Receive supportive critique from experts in this field when your original works are reviewed at the end of the workshop.
Lecturers and Imperfect Cinema hosts, Dr Allister Gall from Media Arts, Plymouth University and Dan Paolantonio, Film, Plymouth College of Art, are on hand to guide you through and help select the Micro Cinema Workshop audience award winner.
This workshop is recommended for those aged between 16-18 years old...
Join our Media Arts experts, Dr Allister Gall and Dr Phil Ellis (Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Film & Television Production), in a discussion about the latest techniques and advances in contemporary film-making.
From new filmmakers to new ideas about documentary, animation and the presentation of archive footage, this exhibition extends an invitation to emerging talent to participate.
Diviner By Frances Scott, winner of the Peninsula Arts Film Commission Prize 2017
Diviner is structured as a script formed almost entirely from footage found within the South West Film & Television Archive (SWFTA). The work...
Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats and firecrackers. It was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.
Introduced by Michael Punt, Professor of Art and Technology at Plymouth University and founding convenor of Transtechnology Research.
Director: Jacques Tati Running time: 89 minutes Cert: U...
Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, Sunrise is Murnau’s ground-breaking masterpiece. Bored with his wife and the routine of farm life, a farmer falls under the spell of a flirtatious city girl who convinces him to drown his wife so they can escape together.
When his wife becomes suspicious and runs away to the city, the farmer pursues her and slowly regains her trust as the two rediscover their love for each other.
Introduced by Michael Punt, Professor of Art and Technology at Plymouth University and founding convenor of...
Launching an evening exploring early cinematic projection, Guy Richards is a Marie Curie Fellow of Early Cinema and Cognitive Creativity and researcher on Plymouth University’s doctoral programme, CogNovo. He will begin the screening with a projection of The Great Train Robbery on a 100 year-old 35mm hand-cranked projector.
Next is Man with a Movie Camera, part documentary, part cinematic art and a silent film classic, directed by Dziga Vertov. Following a city in the Soviet Union in the 1920s across one full day, Vertov uses a variety of complex and innovative camera shots...
Vincent Dance Theatre has been ‘moving people and making them think’ since 1994. Join Artistic Director Charlotte Vincent for a talk and screening, exploring her choreographic approach to making her most recent critically acclaimed work, VIRGIN TERRITORY. Charlotte talks about the collaborative process of creating new work with professional and teenage performers, including the many safeguarding challenges.
She also discusses how a live stage production translated into this multi-screen installation.
Tickets: £6 (standard)/£4.20 (concessions)/Peninsula Arts Friends free...
