MA Film Curating

Core Teaching Faculty

Nick Roddick is a film journalist and academic. His books include A New Deal in Entertainment: Warner Brothers in the 1930s (BFI, 1984) and British Cinema Now (with Martin Auty, BFI, 1985). He has worked extensively as a trade journalist and consultant within the film industry and for a number of major film festivals. He is also a regular contributor to Sight and Sound, Evening Standard and other publications.

Colin MacCabe is an academic and a producer of film, television and installations. His books include Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy (Bloomsbury, 2004), T.S. Eliot (The British Council, 2006) and The Butcher Boy (Irish Film Institute, 2007). His recent work as a producer includes Owls at Noon Prelude; The Hollow Men (dir. Chris Marker), and Derek (dir. Isaac Julien).

Ben Gibson worked as a producer from the late ’80’s to 2001, and as Head of Production at the British Film Institute from ‘89 to ‘99. His credits as producer and executive producer include Terence Davies’ The Long Day Closes, Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein, John Maybury’s Love is the Devil, Carine Adler’s Under the Skin and Jasmin Dizdar’s Beautiful People, as well as 18 other low budget features and numerous shorts by UK directors including Patrick Keiller, Gurinder Chadha, Lynne Ramsay, Richard Kwietniowski and Andrew Kotting. From ‘81 to ‘87 he was a partner in distributors The Other Cinema/Metro Pictures, acquiring and promoting films by Almodovar, Marker, Akerman and Godard and opening the Metro Cinema. He has also been a theatre director, a repertory film programmer, founder of the London International Festival of Theatre and a film critic and journalist.

Alan Bernstein has a B.Sc Econ (Lond.), M. Sc. (Lond.) from University College London. He is Head of Studies at the London Film School, where his responsibilities also include delivering the lecture series on Directing Strategies. Alan has also worked in film production as freelance production assistant, assistant director, and editing assistant. He was part time course director at the London International Film School between 1976 - 1978, taught film theory and analysis at Madraseh Ali Film o Television, Tehran, Iran 1978-1980.

Andrew Brighton was formally Senior Curator: Public Events at Tate Modern and has taught both art history and practice in various art schools, including the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths’ College. His publications include books on Francis Bacon, Picasso and David Hockney; he has edited anthologies on cultural policy and management discourse and his articles and reviews have appeared in Art in America, Studio International, New Art Examiner, London Review of Books, Art Monthly and the Guardian. He curated Towards Another Picture (1977), The Bristol Sample (1979) and Blasphemies Ecstasies Cries (1989). He is a contributing editor to Critical Quarterly and is currently working on a graphic novel with Catherine Brighton.

Teresa Gleadowe was director of the Curating Contemporary Art programme at the Royal College of Art, from its inauguration in 1992 until 2006. Prior to this she was a curator in the Visual Arts Department of the British Council from 1978 to 1989 and was Head of Information at the Tate Gallery from 1989 to 1992. She is Series Editor and Research Consultant for a new series of books on Exhibition Histories, published by Afterall, and has contributed to numerous conferences and anthologies on curating contemporary art. She teaches for De Appel Amsterdam and last year initiated and convened The Falmouth Convention, a three-day international meeting of artists, curators and writers.

 

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