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A woman in a white dress kneels beside a white platform with several glass goblets on it. A microphone on a stand is positioned above the glasses. The scene is set in a minimal, white-walled room with wooden floors.
Two crew members wearing headsets work with equipment on set. Behind them, a film scene with a yellow taxi, lights, and people in motion unfolds in a spacious industrial studio.

Film and Performing Arts Research Group

The Film and Performing Arts Research and Knowledge Exchange group is a thriving interdisciplinary community of practitioners, educators and technical staff. Our diverse areas of expertise coalesce around the significance, role and impact of embodied performance practices, the moving image, sound and emerging technologies, for addressing the most pressing challenges facing the world today.

We interrogate performance, film and sound as processual disciplines in themselves and also in interplay with other disciplines, including science and technology within socio-cultural, political and environmental contexts.

We champion local, national and global collaborative partnerships within and beyond the university for deepening and informing our work. Responding to and driving creative, ethical and technical innovations, we challenge the boundaries of our subject areas and interrogate the role of creativity for fostering measurable impact in local and global contexts.

Areas of focus

Our world-leading research and knowledge exchange spans historical, theoretical and practical initiatives for attending critically to a wide range of global challenges:

  • Climate crisis
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Neuroscience and embodied cognition
  • Intercultural communication
  • Digital futures
  • Mental health and wellbeing

Our group

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News and events

A selection of new stories and past events exploring the group’s activities and outputs.

  • A person dressed in black climbs a steep, rugged rock face, reaching upward with one hand while bracing themselves with their feet and other hand in a narrow crevice.
  • A group of people stand spaced apart on a wooden floor in a large room, each holding a long wooden stick, appearing to practice a coordinated movement or exercise together.
  • A film set with crew members silhouetted in a dimly lit foreground, a yellow taxi in the background, and monitors displaying a scene with a man’s face and city lights. Equipment and cables are visible around the set.
  • A woman in a white dress kneels beside a white platform with several glass goblets on it. A microphone on a stand is positioned above the glasses. The scene is set in a minimal, white-walled room with wooden floors.
  • Two crew members wearing headsets work with equipment on set. Behind them, a film scene with a yellow taxi, lights, and people in motion unfolds in a spacious industrial studio.
  • A movie poster for “Chicken Town” shows a young boy and a man walking with a bicycle in a grassy field with power lines. Faces of other characters are displayed across the top, and tagline text appears above and below the title.
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