Dr Laurent Van Lancker
Conference Keynote Speaker
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Laurent Van Lancker is a filmmaker and anthropologist. His work ranges from experimental travel diaries to film and academic work that focuses on the sensorial and imaginary possibilities of documentary. One of the founders of Polymorfilms and VOX (media activist collective), his award-winning work, such as Surya (2007), has been widely screened and shown on television and at world-leading art centres. He is a Lecturer at INSAS (Belgian National Film School), SIC (Sound Image Culture), and at the MA in Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie University Berlin. He also runs AV workshops and curates film programmes for Cinama Nova in Brussels.
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Prof. Andrew Irving
Conference Keynote Speaker
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Andrew Irving is Director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His regional specialisations are Kampala, Uganda and New York, USA. Andrew does research on experiences of illness, death and dying (especially from HIV/AIDS), in relation to the aesthetic appreciation of time, existence, and otherness; He is also interested in phenomenology, art, performance and creativity, time, comparisons of personhood, religious change, gender and urban experiences. Recent production include “The man who almost killed himself”, produced by BBC Arts, Odeon Cinemas in collaboration with Josh Azouz, Don Boyd and HiBrow Media. Most recent book: The Art of Life and Death – Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice.
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Ken Fero
Residency Guest/Workshop Facilitator
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Renowned filmmaker and political activist, Ken Fero has been active for over 30 years, producing many award-winning films for Channel 4, BBC, FR3 and Press TV. He is the founding member of Migrant Media – a media collective that has been supported by institutes such as UNESCO, British Film Institute and the Arts Council. His films range from politically controversial productions and cinematic documentaries, such as Injustice (2001), to poetic essay films such as Po Po (2013) and Burn (2014). He is currently Senior Lecturer in Media Production at Coventry University, Lecturer in Direction at Regent’s University, London, Visiting Lecturer at Brunel University, and Visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths’s College.
Ken will screen his film Po Po during the conference. |
Prof. Erik Knudsen
Residency Guest/Workshop Facilitator
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Erik Knudsen is a filmmaker and Professor of Media Practice at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the UK, and a Visiting Professor, and the former Head of the Editing Department, at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba. As a filmmaker, he directed multiple fiction and documentary films; most recent productions include Cleft Lip (84 min., fiction), The Raven On The Jetty (88 min., fiction, 2015) and The Silent Accomplice (84 min., fiction, 2011). Erik runs his own film production company, One Day Films Ltd. More recently, Erik has been engaged with photography, publishing a photographic essay Cuba in Waiting, which was exhibited at the Cervantes Institute in Manchester (2013) and Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax (2014). His latest work, entitled Doubt, is a photographic and poetic book, combined with a film.
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Dr Jenny Holt
Residency Guest/Workshop Facilitator
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Jenny Holt has a background in both visual art practice and television documentary production. Her work has been screened at numerous film festivals around the world, and she has produced, directed and filmed documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV, and the Discovery Channel. Her recent work, such as Crossing (2017) and Archipelago (2016), centres on Northern English landscapes experienced through film practice. She is a Senior Lecturer in filmmaking at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
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