Photography, film, screen and sound

Johanna Bramli, digital music lecturer

Johanna works with textures, noise, sonic spaces, audience interaction and sensory perception. She has lectured in sound art, composition for media, performance-based practice and musicology for the past 15 years.

Johanna is also one half of electronic/motorik/pop band Fröst, founder of all-female noise/feedback improv choir The Larsens and co-founder of MAMI – Mamas Across Music Initiative.

Kate Jessop, animation lecturer

Kate is a multi-award winning animation filmmaker who has had exhibits and international distribution deals including with Shorts International and Amazon Prime.

She represented the UK in the Best of Women in Film and TV and was selected for the Berlinale Talent Lab both with her portfolio as a director and her with her comedy series chosen for development in the Project Lab.

She had her first retrospective at the Gilbert Baker Film festival in USA 2019. She has worked across narrative film, comedy, illustration, live visuals, music video and motion design and undertaken international artist residencies.

Dr Dario Llinares, lecturer

An academic, writer, cultural critic and podcaster, Dario teaches on the Digital Media, and Film and Screen Studies programmes. He is the producer and co-host of the popular Cinematologists podcast and has published on the astronaut in twentieth-century media and time travel cinema. Dario's research focuses on digital culture and its effect on mediated identity and social practice.

Ewan Kirkland, games lecturer

Ewan is a specialist in animation history and a videogame scholar focussing on horror gaming. He is the author of Children’s Media and Modernity exploring children’s film, television and videogames.

He is a frequent guest speaker at fan conventions and the lead academic on Historical and Critical Studies and Extended Research Project.

Julia Winckler, photography lecturer

Julia teaches on our photography programmes and is both a photographer and an anthropologist – she works through layers of physical and cultural geography, history and memory, piecing together fragments that establish links between our collective past and present.

Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has contributed to numerous books and journals.