Event

The Film Programme will host an open session entitled “Looking for Home in Home Movies: the Home Mode in Caribbean and Diaspora First Person Film and Video Practice”. This event will take place on Thursday 19^th March 2009. It will be held in Lecture Room 3, South Block Humanities Building, at 1.30 p.m.  The session will be led by Dr. Elspeth Kydd.

Dr. Kydd is currently a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Video Production at The University of The West of England. She specialises in the integration of theory and practice in film and video, with a particular specialization in documentary. Her work includes the production of several documentaries as well as a Film Studies textbook titled The Critical Practice of Film.  Her current research project deals specifically with home movies and amateur image-making and how they relate to the documenting of national identity and Diaspora experience. 

For further information, please contact the Film Office at 662-2002 Ext. 3980.