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Dr David Chapman

Senior Lecturer

Film, Filmmaking, Moving Image Research Centre

Department of Media, Fashion & Communications , School Of Arts And Creative Industries

Dr David Chapman is Course Leader for MA Filmmaking and teaches film production and film history at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and supervises practice orientated PhDs and Professional Doctorates in Fine Art (DFA).

Areas Of Interest

  • Film and television production and history
  • Sonic arts
  • Visual arts
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OVERVIEW

David leads and teaches across a number of MA and BA Modules, with a special focus on documentary film, film sound and professional practice in the moving image industries.

He currently leads the MA Modules Documentary Cinema and Audiovision (film sound & sound design) and the BA Modules Employment and Enterprise and Agency 2: Professional Life & Mental Wealth.

He is an active member of the School's research committees (Impact and Innovation and Research Degree) and runs Schema, UEL's Student Film Production Unit

CURRENT RESEARCH

David's current work is as a media artist and researcher with a particular interest in sound and image interaction. He creates video and multichannel sound pieces for both gallery and site-specific exhibitions.

David's most recent work investigates the sonic mediation of the natural world, the durational dimensions of place, and historical and cultural issues through audio-visual installations. He is a founding member of UEL's Moving Image Research Committee.

For more information, you can visit David's website.

Most Recent Research

Art as Problematic Waste (2019) Documentary film and multi-channel installation project, co-directed with Finnish media artist Aimo Hyvärinen. The work is funded by AVEK, the Finnish audio-visual arts council.

  • October 4 - 27, 2019 Turku Art Hall, Turku, Finland.
  • October 7 - 30, 2019 Kulttuuritalo Laikku, Tampere, Finland.
  • March 5 - 12, 2020  Greenwich University Galleries, London. Curated by David Waterworth.
  • April 2021, International Fine Arts Film Festival, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.

Meanings of Failed Action: Insurrection 1946 (2017) Collaborative multimedia installation with leading artist Vivan Sundaram, cultural historians Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Prof. Valentina Vitali (UEL).
(Archived Website) https://insurrection1946.wordpress.com/ 

  • March 17 – 25, 2017, Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Museum, Mumbai, India.
  • Feb 9 – July 20, 2018, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India.

Chapman, D. (2017) 'Context-Based Sound and the Ecological Theory of Perception' Organised Sound, 22(1), pp. 42-50.

COLLABORATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS

  • Black Leaf Films
  • Discover.film
  • Dreamstudio Virtual Reality
  • Film and Video Umbrella
  • Highlife Productions
  • Just Runners
  • NICOLA (New International Company of Live Arts)

TEACHING

MA Filmmaking

Master the art of filmmaking at the University of East London. Elevate your skills with our specialised master's programme in filmmaking.

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BA (Hons) Film

Unleash your cinematic passion with a film degree at the University of East London. Dive into BA Film and explore diverse courses on your creative journey.

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MODULES

MA modules

  • MS7502 Audiovision
  • MS7515 Documentary Cinema
  • MS7533 The Moving Image
  • MS7000 Professional Practice & Research Methods (Mental Wealth)
  • MS7001 Final Project.

BA modules

  • MS4013 Documentary 1 - Documentary and Representation
  • MS5038 Enterprise & Employment
  • MS5031 Mental Wealth: Professional Life - Agency 2
  • MS6201 Cinematics 3 - Dissertation projects

PhD supervision

David has supervised the following PhDs to completion:

  • 2020  Orson Nava: Eastern Promise? Race, Innovation and Inequality in the Creative Industries-Driven Regeneration of East London, (Director of Studies).
  • 2019 Najat Alsheridah: Women and Dance in Kuwaiti Cinema, (Supervisor).

He is currently supervising the following PhD and Professional Doctorate in Fine Art (DFA) candidates (with Due to Complete dates).

  • 2022 Paul Greenleaf: Illusory Truth: Temporal Dislocation, Place Memory and Object Afterlife, (Supervisor) DFA.
  • 2022 Ralph Overhill: Monsters and Margins, (Supervisor, DFA.)
  • 2024 Julian Alexander: The Cinematic Hip-hop Narrative: Using Rap as the Primary Storytelling tool on Screen, (Supervisor) PhD.
  • 2025 Hannah Beadman: Cinematography and Indigeneity: decolonizing Land / land/ land'scape', collapsing the apparatus-camera's gaze, (Director of Studies) PhD.

Publications

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Full publications list

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Research repository