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Dr Cecilia Stenbom
Lecturer in Film and Television Production Research interests: Film practice |
About
My film practice focused on the moving image and its relationship to the real world – how the moving image permeates reality and in turn, how the everyday is transformed into narrative fiction. My research interest lies in the processes and methods – both conventional and experimental – involved in narrative filmmaking and how they feed into the above interrogation. Thematically I explore media-saturated, consumer-driven everyday environments, and how they affect human response, notions of identity, behaviour and interaction. I examine collective experiences through moving image content by reinterpretation and appropriation, using narrative and plot as tools. I examine anxieties and desires, reinterpreting scenarios within entertainment, mass media, retail, and domestic life. I work predominately with moving image content through film and installation by re-contextualising narrative for the gallery space or adapting it for the cinema screen.
My work has been screened and exhibited nationally and internationally. It occupies a unique position in that it is moving between gallery practice and conventional narrative filmmaking, disseminated in both contexts.
My film practice focused on the moving image and its relationship to the real world – how the moving image permeates reality and in turn, how the everyday is transformed into narrative fiction. My research interest lies in the processes and methods – both conventional and experimental – involved in narrative filmmaking and how they feed into the above interrogation. Thematically I explore media-saturated, consumer-driven everyday environments, and how they affect human response, notions of identity, behaviour and interaction. I examine collective experiences through moving image content by reinterpretation and appropriation, using narrative and plot as tools. I examine anxieties and desires, reinterpreting scenarios within entertainment, mass media, retail, and domestic life. I work predominately with moving image content through film and installation by re-contextualising narrative for the gallery space or adapting it for the cinema screen.
My work has been screened and exhibited nationally and internationally. It occupies a unique position in that it is moving between gallery practice and conventional narrative filmmaking, disseminated in both contexts.
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Qualifications
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Employment
Cecilia joined Northumbria University in 2019; she is currently attached to the Film and Television Production programme |
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PhD Supervision
Cecilia welcomes practice-led PhD applications especially projects that cut across disciplinary boundaries – moving image art, experimental film, documentary and narrative fiction. Doctoral projects that demonstrate innovative practice-led methodologies would be very warmly received. |
Modules Taught
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Selected Screenings and Exhibitions
- Rules of Engagement, London Short Film Festival, 2019.
- Rules of Engagement, screenings and in-conversation. Regent Street Cinema (London), CCA (Glasgow), Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), The Maltings (Berwick Upon Tweed) and The Tetley (Leeds). 2018
- Beam Reach Blasting, Solo Exhibition, Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland, 2018.
- Which Way North, Group Exhibition, Great North Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, 2018.
- Somewhere Becoming Sea, Group Exhibition curated by Film & Video Umbrella, Humberside Gallery, Hull, 2017.
- MY PART OF YOUR HOME, Group Exhibition curated by CIRCA, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, 2017.
- REMAKE, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK, 2016.
- In Waiting, London Short Film Festival, UK, 2016.
- A Foreign Encounter, Group Exhibition, Gallery FOE 156, Munich, Germany, 2015.
- In Waiting, Official Competition, Reggio Film Festival, Reggio, Italy, 2015.
- Rakas Puree, screening, Joensuu Art Museum, Finland, 2015.
- The Case, Nordic Competition at Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway, 2015.
- SYSTEM, Glasgow Short Film Festival, UK, 2015.
- The Case, 28th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany, 2015.
- SYSTEM, London Short Film Festival, UK, 2015.
- The List, Figure two, BALTIC 39, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, 2014.
- Everyday Collateral, Solo Exhibition, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK, 2014.
- SATELLITE SATELLITE, Workplace Gallery, London, UK, 2014.
- International Print Biennale, Newcastle & Gateshead, UK, 2014.
- SYSTEM, Underwire Festival, London, UK, 2014.
- In Waiting & SYSTEM, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK, 2014.
- The Case, 6th Cairo Video Festival, Egypt, 2014.
- The Case, DINAMO P&I Screening, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Holland, 2014.
- The Case, Glasgow Short Film Festival, International competition, UK, 2014.
- The Case, London Short Film Festival, UK, 2014.
