Adam Laity
Lecturer, Film & Television MA (Online)
Adam Laity is a cinematographer, filmmaker and researcher. Alongside his work as a professional director of photography and producing his own award-winning moving image work, his practice-led research re-conceptualises the notion of the sublime as eco-sublime to reflect the pervasive nature of the climate crisis and argues that through eco-sublime landscapes artists and audiences can explore the relationships and interconnectivity between humans and more-than-human entities in nature.
Laity’s practice-led PhD thesis film, A Short Film About Ice, draws on a turn towards affect, auto-ethnography and the essay film and film-poem forms to explore cinematographic approaches towards eco-sublime landscapes, specifically the well-worn imagery of Arctic environments. The film screened at BFI Southbank and at festivals internationally, winning awards in Canada, Serbia, Brazil, Armenia and India. It was nominated in four categories for the AHRC’s Research In Film Awards 2020, winning the Best Climate Emergency Film Award and going on to win the Audiovisual Practice-Research Award 2021 from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. His PhD thesis broke new ground by being largely constructed out of documentary and essay-films and went on to win the 2022 BAFTSS Practice Research Doctoral Award.
He is a visiting Fellow at the University of the West of England and is currently working on an immersive 360° video project exploring an Atlantic temperate rainforest on the edge of Bodmin Moor.
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