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 city-centre buildings designed especially for these areas of study you'll gain skills through working in our professional facilities, with opportunities to develop practical experience.

You will learn from professionals and leading artists, exploring your potential and discovering through creativity, discussion and real-world experience.

Art and design at Brighton is ranked in the top 13 in the UK and in the top 100 globally by the QS World University Rankings 2020.

Our film production and photography courses are joint 2nd in the UK for career prospects in the Guardian University Guide 2021.

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Art and media students work on Photography Club project with Photoworks

Three students (Olivia Gallichan, Anna Mika and Naomi Ross-Mason) recently worked with the University of Brighton Outreach team on Photography Club, a nine-week initiative run with Photoworks and artist Lindsey Smith which enables young people to meet regularly, develop their camera skills alongside a professional photographer, produce photography and gain an Arts Award qualification.

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Vocational and creative

Professional practice modules, live briefs and placements mean you’ll feel confident and ready to enter the working world on graduation. We have close links with the Brighton Film Festival, Photoworks, CINECITY and Screen Archive South East, and you’ll have guest talks, screenings and workshops from visiting industry leaders that include photographers, artists, filmmakers and composers.

Showcase your work

You'll have the opportunity to exhibit work throughout your course at our on-site exhibition spaces and in the annual University of Brighton Graduate Show. Our graduates regularly go on to gain recognition in their field and recent achievements include an Ivor Novello nomination for Olivia Louvel, digital musician; a Creative Review profile of photographer Noé Warren; and a prize at the Her International Film Festival for filmmaker Alice Giraudi.

Specialist equipment and facilities

You’ll be able to use our music studios, kit rooms with high spec camera equipment, darkrooms, performance space and screening rooms. Whether you’re working in a sound booth or borrowing a camera we’ll ensure you have the space and equipment to realise your projects.

Our people

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.

Julia Winckler photgraphs

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