Dr.Steven Eastwood is a filmmaker whose work spans fiction, documentary and artists' moving image. His films have been screened and exhibited internationally to acclaim. He has published numerous articles and chapters on cinema and regularly curates screenings. In 1997 he formed the production company Paradogs Films. Paradogs' second documentary, Those Who Are Jesus (2001), was nominated for best documentary newcomer in the prestigious Grierson Award at BAFTA. Eastwood gained a theory-practice PhD through UCL, The Slade in 2007.

His work currently deals with the ‘event’ of filmmaking as a site for performing difference. His films veer between genres, embrace difficulty and lack of conclusion and freely-play between fact and fabulation.

Visit: www.cinemaintothereal.org

Shortform CV:

Eastwood is the co-founder of the arts laboratory event OMSK, a London based collective of artists creating site specific and cross-disciplinary events, and recognised as providing a vital platform for performance, sound, video/film artists. He was the co-organiser of the Volcano! film festival (1996-2000) and continues to regularly programme screenings of artists' film and video. He formed the production company Paradogs Film in 1997. Those Who Are Jesus was nominated in the prestigious Grierson award for best documentary newcomer at BAFTA in 2001. Eastwood has taught widely in the UK and USA and gained a PhD through UCL, The Slade in 2007. He is a member of Octopus, an international film arts organization.


Qualifications:

• BA (hons) Fine Art 1:1, University of Plymouth 1994
• PhD (practice and theory) ‘Cinema into the Real’, UCL The Slade 2007

Previous posts held:

• 2007 (Jan-Feb)
  
  UCL / The Slade School of Fine Art
  Visiting Lecturer in Art History, teaching Deleuze and Cinema
• 2004-7
  
  University at Buffalo, NY – Dept of Media Study Assistant Professor, Film. Duties include theoretical and practical teaching at graduate and undergraduate level, MA thesis tuition, special project guidance, curriculum development, dept/school development, conference planning and delivery.
• 2005 (Feb)
  
  Harvard University, Dept of Media Arts
  Visiting Lecturer on undergraduate course
• 2003 (Oct-Dec)
  
  Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham
  Visiting Lecturer on Stage II Documentary Practice, undergraduate
• 2002 – 2003
  
  University of Greenwich, London
  Visiting Lecturer on Stage II Media, Culture and Communications
• 1999 - 2004
  
  Exeter Faculty of Arts, Univ. of Plymouth
  0.5 Senior Lecturer in Time-Based and Digital Fine Art BA (Hons),
  Area coordinator and stage three coordinator
  Providing practical/theoretical lectures, seminars, and tutorials
• 1994- 1999
  
  Exeter Faculty of Arts and Education, Univ. of Plymouth
  Visiting lecturer - MATTA (Time-based media) BA (Hons) Fine Art

Programme Leader (Production), Film & Video: Theory and Practice

Fiction: documentary; single and multi-channel moving image for the gallery; theories of affect; theories of free-indirect discourse; Deleuze and Cinema, Underground Cinema; essay film; live art.

• Film & Video: Theory and Practice

• MS3000 (by production),
• MS2202
• MS1201
• MS1203
• MSM505
• MSM533
• MSM534
• MSM514

Films

• Buried Land (feature film, with Geoffrey Alan Rhodes. UK,USA,Bosnia. 86:00. HD 16:9. 2010)

Selected recent exhibitions

• 2008 Of Camera and Chris Crossing, installation, Artists vs Hollywood, Creative Industries Precinct, Queensland Institute of Technology, Australia
• A Seminar in Film Sound as part of the group show ‘A Walk Through’ at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, 2007
• Like a House on Fire, Trace Exhibition, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich
• Like a House on Fire, installation/screening, Open Video Projects, Rome screening/artists' talk, 1:1 Gallery, Rome, 2006
• The Film! The Film! The Film! installation, Cinemaniac, Pula, Croatia, 2005
• Come As You Are, installation, Killing Time, Tou Scene CCA, Oslo, Norway

Selected recent screenings

• 2008
  
  The Actually Triology, Purescreen, Castelfield Gallery, Manchester
  Hearsay, Adventures in Experiments, East End Film Festival, London
• 2007
  
  Hearsay, EMAF Osnabruck, Germany
  Hearsay, Antimatter film festival, Victoria BC
• 2006
  
  Come As You Are, Videoclub Brighton
  Like a House on Fire, Antimatter film festival, Victoria BC
  Different Systems of Chaos at Collide.Collabo, Chelsea School of Art
  Like a House on Fire, Interval (2), Cine Lumiere, London
• 2005
  
  The End, The Magic of Real Life in Real Situations 05, CCA Glasgow
  The Film and Of Camera, Visura Aperta, Momiano, Croatia
  Of Camera, Visura Aperta, Momiano, Croatia
  Different Systems of Chaos, CCA Warsaw
  I Make Things Happen, The End, Chris Crossing, Hallwalls Art Centre, Buffalo, NY
  
  Of Camera EMAF World tour (European Media Arts Festival) 2005:
  • Filmtheater 't Hoogt, Utrecht, NL
  • Volksbildungswerk, Eschborn, D
  • Association Rencontres AV Lille, F
  • Centre Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, E
  • Contemporary Arts Centre (GI), Warzawa, PL
  • Annexia Festival, Toulouse, F
  • Centre Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, E
  • SYNCH Festival Lavrio, Greece
  • Waterpieces-NOASS, Riga, Lit

Publications and Conference papers

2008

• The Film is in Front of Us, book chapter for Telling Stories: The Cinematic Essay, editor Jane Tovey, Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming
• The Film to Come, book chapter for Excesses & Extremes, editor Firozia Elava, forthcoming

2007

• video paper, The Film is in Front of Us, Cinematic Essay conference, Loughborough Univ, UK
• co-editor and contributor, OMSKBOOK, published by OMSK
• On-line publication for Lux, Unknown Bodies, Gilles Deleuze and Cinema
• Exhibition catalogue for Roundabout exhibition (Annis Joslin), Permanent Gallery, Brighton

2006

• video paper, The Film is in Front of Us, Deluge Conference, Victoria University, British Columbia
• paper, Unknown Bodies, The Work of Gilles Deleuze conference, Greenwich University, UK
• video paper, Making Films Wrong, French Cinema conference, French Institute, London
• video paper, The Film We Didn't Make, for Interval (2) Conference, London

2005

• video paper, A New Lived Time of Film Unmaking, for Interval (1) Conference, Buffalo
• paper, Film Can Help Us Think Thought, for Cinemascope Film Journal
• Curator, Interval (1) Conference, Center for the Arts, Buffalo NY
• article/review, The Eventless and the Event, for Vertigo Film Journal

2004

• paper, Cinema: the picnoleptic moment and the unthought, presented at Experimental Film Conference, Chicago University

2003

• paper, Cinema into the Real for The Archivist, an on-line journal

1999

• article, The Screen into the Space and the Space into the Screen in Filmwaves journal

• Laboratory, Jerwood Space
• Artists' Vs Hollywood (Globe Gallery)
• The Cinematic Fold (PleasureDome press)
• Telling Stories: The Cinematic Essay (Cambridge Scholars Press)
• OMSKBOOK (OMSKBOOK Press)
• Fresh Moves (TANKTV)

Bectu member

• www.buriedland.com
• www.cinemaintothereal.com

• www.buriedland.com
• www.cinemaintothereal.com