The University of Stirling holds the personal and working papers,
photographs, memorabilia and books of Lindsay Anderson, one of the most
important British film directors of the twentieth century. The collection
is currently being listed and will be available to researchers in August
2004. A symposium on 25 & 26 June, organised by the University's Film and
Media Studies Department, will showcase the collection for the first time.
Further details of the event are included below.
Karl Magee
Project Archivist
The Lindsay Anderson Collection
University of Stirling
Documentary at the Movies - June 25th 26th 2004
The University of Stirling Department of Film & Media Studies announces its
forthcoming symposium Documentary at the Movies - Where are the Brits?
which will held in the University's MacRobert Arts Centre
(http://www.macrobert.org/).
On Friday 25 June the event will showcase the Lindsay Anderson Collection
(held at the University) and look at his contribution to British
documentary film-making. The symposium will look at the current state of
documentary film-making on Saturday 26 June with sessions looking at the
practicalities of Producing Documentaries today and attempting to identify
what might be distinctive about contemporary British big screen
documentaries, So Where are the Brits?
Confirmed participants include, filmmaker, writer & broadcaster Mark
Cousins, documentary maker and former Chief Executive of Scottish Screen,
John Archer, the Lindsay Anderson Collection archivist Karl Magee and
Leslie Hills, award-winning director of Skyline productions and writer and
producer of a range of factual programmes.
The recent critically acclaimed feature documentaries Touching the Void and
Spellbound will be screened as will a selection of Lindsay Anderson’s
documentaries including his Oscar winning short Thursday’s Children (1954)
and his last film Is That All There Is? (1992).
The cost for this symposium is £65 (concessions £45). For full details
please contact Leslie Mitchell, Department of Film and Media Studies,
[log in to unmask], tel. 01786 467522.
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