Photography, film, screen and sound

Our degrees in photography, film, games design, animation and sound will equip you with the artistic, analytical and theoretical skills needed to become an accomplished practitioner in your chosen field.

In a modern, city-centre building designed especially for these areas of study, you will learn from professionals and leading artists, exploring your potential and discovering through creativity, discussion and real-world experience.

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Professional engagement

You'll benefit from our close links with Brighton Film Festival, CINECITY and Screen Archive South East, while developing your learning through regular guest talks, screenings and workshops from visiting industry leaders that include photographers, artists, filmmakers and composers.

Get involved

You'll build practical skills through volunteering at local festivals, such as the Brighton Photo Biennial run by Photoworks, a leading UK agency based on campus. You'll have the opportunity to exhibit work throughout your course, including at the University of Brighton Graduate Show, which attracts around 12,000 visitors every year.

Specialist facilities

You'll have access to our industry-standard sound suite, photographic studios, editing suites and screening room, where you'll explore your practice and experiment with different formats.

Our people

Chris Roberts, Digital Music and Sound Arts graduate

Chris is the founder and Managing Director of Ithaca Audio, a Brighton-based company specialising in music composition, sound design and production and re-mixing. Ithaca have created remix videos for some of the world's largest corporations and advertising agencies, including Mercedes, VW, Red Bull, Guinness and Saatchi & Saatchi. Chris is also an award-winning composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist and is a member of the British Academy of Composers, Songwriters and Authors. He has taught music production for the BBC and performed internationally.

Dr Louise FitzGerald, lecturer

Louise teaches on our film and screen studies programmes. Her specialist interests are in the politics of representation on-screen, especially with regards to race and gender. Her research has informed the modules she has devised at the university that examine film and cultural politics, screen comedy, screen histories, film theory and popular media.

Matthew Noel-Tod, lecturer

Matthew is an artist and filmmaker who teaches our Moving Image degree. His work is held in the collection of the Pompidou centre, Paris and the British Film Institute National Film and Television Archive and is distributed by LUX. His career in the field of moving image includes a Film London Artists' Film and Video Award for his film Nausea, an Arts Council England Grant for Arts award for his film BANG! and an artist-in-residency at The Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw and the Chisenhale Gallery, London. He has been a visiting artist at the San Francisco Institute.

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.

Julia Winckler, 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.

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Film, screen studies, moving image, photography, digital music and sound arts are taught at the School of Media.

Photography, film, screen and sound