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...
Charlotte Vincent’s VIRGIN TERRITORY takes a bold and uncompromising look at our hyper-sexualised culture and the impact it is having on girls and young women growing up today. We all want to be ‘liked’ and ‘followed’, but what effect does constantly performing for the camera have on our lives?
VIRGIN TERRITORY is a multi-layered film installation, performed by four children aged 12-14 and four adults, with real-life testimonies, stunning cinematography and bold performances screened across five large televisions mounted on school benches. With moving, resilient performances at its...
Professor Geoffrey Swain is Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow and holds the Alexander Nove Chair of Russian and European Studies. Professor Swain has written extensively on the history of Russia and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century, focusing most recently on the following themes: Latvia during the first years of Soviet rule; Russia during the Civil War; and the career of Josip Broz Tito. He is author of 'A Short History of the Russian Revolution'. In this talk Professor Swain explores two major ways in which the October Revolution has been interpreted. One approach...
Mighty Mondo Monday have been called upon to put some festive cheer in your lives with their sixth annual Christmas special at Peninsula Arts.
This year they’re melting hearts with Edward Scissorhands. So for all you misfits, oddballs and hopeless romantics come watch the snow fly and try to make it look like you’ve ‘just got something in your eye’. An amazing quiz is included, with prizes and a myriad of other Yuletide treats to make even the staunchest Scrooge’s head spin
