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Academic Projects and Research Work Using the ArchiveBased within the faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton, the Screen Archive South East has strong links with the academic courses in the University. The Archive’s Director, Frank Gray, teaches and supervises on undergraduates degrees in the Faculty of Arts & Architecture and a module of the Faculty’s MA in Histories and Cultures is devoted to the study of the the archive's collection. The archive's Education Officer also teaches on Brighton and Film at the University of Sussex. Students from the Schools of Historical & Critical Studies and Arts & Communication use archive film as a resource for their projects. This includes the composition of new music for archive films. Recent postgraduate research by students from Brighton, the Royal College of Art, Birbeck - University of London and Christ Church, Canterbury have used the collection to investigate amateur films and the tourist’s gaze, the history and culture of seaside towns and the rise of cine clubs in the 1930s. The Screen Archive is interested in working with artists who wish to use the collection as a creative resource. A selection of family film from the Archive has been recently used by the artist, Faye Claridge, in her installation ‘Family China’. She used stills from the films to to decorate commemorative plates in order to highlight, “how we preserve and remember personal history.” The Screen Archive’s research interests include all aspects of screen practice from the magic lantern to film to television to the internet. Frank Gray is a specialist in early English cinema and the work of the Brighton film pioneers, G. A. Smith and James Williamson. The archivist, Ine van Dooren’s focus is on the history of amateur film, especially the study of ‘family films’. She is also the Research Officer of the Magic Lantern Society. Tim Brown, the Education Officer's wide interests include short films and the city on film. |
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