INEFF Organisers
Pavel Prokopič
Pavel Prokopič is the INEFF principal investigator, as well as a filmmaker, researcher and lecturer in Film Production at the University of Salford. His current research focuses on advancing cinema as a unique form of art and storytelling by synthesising creative practice-as-research, philosophical concepts, and an innovative application of traditional methods and cutting-edge information and communication technologies, which is exemplified in the recent Nested Cinema installation. Previously, Pavel has written and directed several dramas and experimental projects, and worked as a freelance cinematographer in London. He also worked as a content director/producer on an IoT research project The Living Room of the Future with BBC R&D and the British Council, and has taken part in various artistic residencies and collaborations, including the Visual Research Network and the Sidney Nolan Trust. His work has been widely published, exhibited and presented, including FACT in Liverpool, Grosvenor Gallery in Manchester and Victoria & Albert Museum in London. He holds a PhD in Film from the AHRC North West Consortium/University of Salford, and a Master’s degree in Film Aesthetics from Magdalen College, University of Oxford. For more information, please visit pavelprokopic.com
Alex Lichtenfels
Alex Lichtenfels is Senior Lecturer at University of Salford. His filmmaking practices centre around notions of devised cinema, adapting and incorporating theatrical and performance traditions to a filmmaking context. His work invites collaborators from many disciplines, and the guiding principle behind it is to design and enact non-hierarchical filmmaking processes.
Matthew Hawkins
Matthew is a filmmaker and academic. His research interest in film practice is focused on affect and tone in narrative cinema, documentary film, and experimental practice. He holds a PhD from the University of East London, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This research project, entitled The Concept of Affective Tonality and the Role of the Senses in Producing a Cinematic Narrative, is focused on affective and mood, rooted in a Deleuzian film-philosophy, and how this can be used as a method and methodology for composing narrative fiction film that privileges the subjective experience of characters, rhythm, and tone, over traditional narrative structure. Matthew is Chair of the Screen Research Group and Course Director for Film Practice in the Division of Film at London South Bank University.
Pavel Prokopič is the INEFF principal investigator, as well as a filmmaker, researcher and lecturer in Film Production at the University of Salford. His current research focuses on advancing cinema as a unique form of art and storytelling by synthesising creative practice-as-research, philosophical concepts, and an innovative application of traditional methods and cutting-edge information and communication technologies, which is exemplified in the recent Nested Cinema installation. Previously, Pavel has written and directed several dramas and experimental projects, and worked as a freelance cinematographer in London. He also worked as a content director/producer on an IoT research project The Living Room of the Future with BBC R&D and the British Council, and has taken part in various artistic residencies and collaborations, including the Visual Research Network and the Sidney Nolan Trust. His work has been widely published, exhibited and presented, including FACT in Liverpool, Grosvenor Gallery in Manchester and Victoria & Albert Museum in London. He holds a PhD in Film from the AHRC North West Consortium/University of Salford, and a Master’s degree in Film Aesthetics from Magdalen College, University of Oxford. For more information, please visit pavelprokopic.com
Alex Lichtenfels
Alex Lichtenfels is Senior Lecturer at University of Salford. His filmmaking practices centre around notions of devised cinema, adapting and incorporating theatrical and performance traditions to a filmmaking context. His work invites collaborators from many disciplines, and the guiding principle behind it is to design and enact non-hierarchical filmmaking processes.
Matthew Hawkins
Matthew is a filmmaker and academic. His research interest in film practice is focused on affect and tone in narrative cinema, documentary film, and experimental practice. He holds a PhD from the University of East London, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This research project, entitled The Concept of Affective Tonality and the Role of the Senses in Producing a Cinematic Narrative, is focused on affective and mood, rooted in a Deleuzian film-philosophy, and how this can be used as a method and methodology for composing narrative fiction film that privileges the subjective experience of characters, rhythm, and tone, over traditional narrative structure. Matthew is Chair of the Screen Research Group and Course Director for Film Practice in the Division of Film at London South Bank University.
