Jenny Holt  

0.5 senior lecturer across the B.A (hons) Contemporary Film & Video programme and head of documentary.

My research expands on my background in both fine art practice and television documentary production, with a particular interest in the encounter between documentary and artist's film, and how this form can be applied to a thematic investigation of time and place. My most recent film work stems from interests in the dialogue between cultural histories and subjective experiences of landscape. Mill (2007) is a portrait of a landscape once defined by textile manufacturing (Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire), using rhythmic interplays of visual and sonic representations of the town and its valleys to investigate histories of a post-industrial landscape. Catchpoint (2008) recontextualises Bill Brandt's iconic photograph 'Halifax, 1937' with images and sounds from the same location today, exploring shifting patterns of existence within Halifax over the last 70 years, alongside the historical mythologisation of the industrial north. My most recent project Not giddy yet aerial, centres on one of the most revered and familiar landscapes in England, the Lake District National Park in Cumbria. Funded by Arts Council England it was exhibited at the Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere in 2011.

As a TV production freelancer for several UK production companies I produced, directed and shot documentaries and factual programming for national & international broadcasters including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery channel.