Dani Landau

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    I make films, photographs, and experimental photomedia projects. I specialise in documentary practices, cinematography, and experimental photomedia. I have previously worked in various media production roles including as cinematographer on a feature drama film about indigenous land rights in Bolivia. I worked in socially engaged arts supporting people without filmmaking experience to make films about their own lives. This involved working with participants to co-design variations on the Digital Storytelling filmmaking method. 

    I work half the week at the University. My teaching enables students to apply contemporary technical skills in critical creative practice.  I currently lead three modules. In Professional Filmmaker student filmmakers work together with partners in the third sector to make issue based non-fiction films. In Screen Dialogues students apply insights from film studies to develop film practice. In the Experimentation module students create a portfolio of short risk-taking practice-based research pieces in preparation for their end of course short film piece. I supervise PhD students using practice-based research in filmmaking, photography, contemporary art, and socially engaged arts practice.

    My current research is concentrates on the relationships produced between place, people, and image. This has resulted in film, located media, and augmented reality work. I am currently collaborating in a research project at Filmuniversität Babelsberg involving approaches from cultural post-humanism in collaborative film production. My writing employs the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead in understanding how photomedia practices produce novel modes of relation. For example, how techniques such as photogrammetry and lidar afford different ways of making films that create different understandings of place.

    I am proud to be involved in the unique filmmaking department at the University of Plymouth.

    Professional memberships

    Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

    Roles on external bodies

    Film and events programmer, Cube Microplex, Bristol.Collective member - BEEF (Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film), External Examiner: Kingston University, London. BA Filmmaking 

    Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

    In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

    • SDG 4 - Quality Education
    • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

    External positions

    External Examiner, Kingston University

    1 Sept 2024 → …

    Research Interests

    • Filmmaking
    • Media Arts Practice
    • Film-Philosophy
    • Place
    • Photography
    • Participatory research

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