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SEEKING CO-INVESTIGATOR - AHRC APPLICATION I am an artist-filmmaker and lecturer at the Moving Image Studio, Royal College of Art, London. I am preparing to submit an AHRC Research Grant application as Principal Investigator. I am now seeking to attach a Co-Investigator to the project. The envisaged outcome of the research is principally a feature film / long-form film work. Ideally, the Co-Investigator would be a screenwriter and academic within a HEI. I would see the Co-Investigator as collaborating with myself on the project screenplay (as co-writer, script editor, or mentor) and the Co-Investigator would ideally generate an output/entity of their own as part of the research. My work has previously attracted regular research funding (including AHRC) and I am looking to build on this success in order to move into feature / long-form work with a major application to AHRC. The bid would be approximately £250,000. The application process is being supported by the RCA's Research Office and Head of Research. Project Title: 'How To Arrange a Funeral' Resarch Aims / Questions: What happens when the monologue form is sustained across the space of a feature film? What happens when a monologue screenplay is embedded within the standardised genre of the road movie? Can this mode of screenwriting contribute to a re-conceptualisation of industrial genre? The project aims to advance the discipline of the contemporary screenplay and present a significant outcome in the form of an ambitious fiction film. Teaching Background: I have held a 0.5 academic post at the Royal College of Art since 2004. I work with MA and Research students using moving image in the RCA's Fine Art School, and I currently direct the RCA's Moving Image Studio, a new purpose-designed centre for film and video that I established in 2009. My films could be described as 'recurrent fiction'. Screenwriting is a central part of my work, through which I ask questions about deception, power and temptation; my textual methodologies have recently encompassed circularity, apocrypha and the monologue form. I show my work continuously and have exhibited in over 25 countries to date. I would be very interested in hearing from individuals who are interested in discussing this project further. I am London-based. Please see my contact details below. With best regards, Stuart Croft --------------------------- Stuart Croft Tutor, Moving Image Studio Royal College of Art School of Fine Art Unit 1, 1-11 Howie Street London SW11 4AS Email: [log in to unmask] Tel (Mobile): 07946 642014 Tel (RCA): 020 7924 1079 Research Profile: http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=511430 Website: www.stuartcroft.com