He was previously director of Picture This, Bristol (2011 – 2013), and co-director of City Projects, London (2004 – 2011). She collaborated with Stephen Dwoskin as film editor and assistant director.ĭan Kidner is a freelance curator and writer. Her films are concerned with history and memory and have been screened at international film festivals, galleries and other venues. This has lead to papers on the representation of mental illness experience at the Royal College of Psychiatry, articles on American Occult Filmmakers as well as experimental film and sound work.Īnthea Kennedy studied fine art at Chelsea School of Art and Leeds Polytechnic and film at the Royal College of Art. His research focuses around investigations of subconscious mental states within cinema. John Bradburn is an academic, journalist and filmmaker from Birmingham. Prof Patricia MacCormack, Professor of Continental Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University, author of Cinesexuality Evanescent Flesh: The Bound and Unbound Body in Dwoskin John Bradburn, Lecturer at Staffordshire University The Camera as Philosophers Stone
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Inaugurating the opening of the Dwoskin archive at the University of Reading, this symposium will explore his historical importance as a key figure in independent film and his groundbreaking film work.ġ1.15am-11.30am WELCOME – Dr Rachel Garfield and Benjamin CookĬhair: Will Fowler, curator of artists’ moving image at the BFI National Archive, Dan Kidner, curator, writer and PhD candidate, University of Reading ‘To independent filmmakers: Stephen Dwoskin and “The International Free Cinema”‘ Dr Lucy Reynolds, writer and researcher in artists moving image A Young American in London Henry K Miller, Independent researcher, contributor to Sight and Sound The Lonely Crowd: Dwoskin, Durgnat, and the London Film-Makers Co-opĢpm-3pm SCREENING: You, Me and Everyone We Know, curated by Will Fowler:Ĭhair: Dr Rachel Garfield, artist and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the University of ReadingĪnthea Kennedy, filmmaker Approaching Dwoskin: getting to know the filmmaker, his camera and his films He worked in Warhol’s Factory, co-founded the London Film Makers Co-Op (now LUX) at Better Books as well as the Independent Filmmakers’ Association in the 1970s (an organisation that paved the way for Channel 4) and The Other Cinema. We were delighted that Rachel’s family were able to join us for the occasion.Stephen Dwoskin (1939-2012) was an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, director and producer. “Rachel truly thought Anglia Ruskin was a fantastic place to work and to study, and she is missed dearly by everyone who knew and worked with her.”Īfter the unveiling of a plaque in Anglia Ruskin’s new Science Centre on the Cambridge campus, Vice Chancellor Professor Iain Martin said: “Rachel was truly passionate about teaching Psychology at Anglia Ruskin, so we hope this is a fitting tribute to a much-missed colleague. “Her commitment to the Department was unparalleled and the staff and students’ achievements to date are in many respects down to her passion and enthusiasm for psychology at Anglia Ruskin University. Speaking about her influence on psychology at Anglia Ruskin, Acting Head of Department Dr Daragh McDermott said: “Rachel was incredibly dedicated to her subject, to Anglia Ruskin, and to each and every one of her students. Rachel, who passed away in January following a prolonged battle with breast cancer, joined Anglia Ruskin in 1997 as a Lecturer in Psychology in what was then the School of Life Sciences.ĭuring her time at Anglia Ruskin, Rachel was instrumental in the development of both the Department of Psychology and the Faculty of Science and Technology.Īs Programme Leader and then Head of Department (2012-18), Rachel facilitated the department’s British Psychological Society accreditation, served as Chair of the Faculty Research Ethics Panel, led preparations for Anglia Ruskin’s successful Athena SWAN award and helped thousands of students achieve their undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
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