5 May 2021 - Dr Kieran Foster, De Montfort University/Nottingham Trent University: 'Shadow Cinema: Unmade Films and the Archive'

Supported by the BAFTSS New Connections scheme and Edinburgh University Press.

Peter Krämer notes that unmade projects ‘have absorbed much of the creativity and a substantial proportion of the financial investments of the American film industry’ (Krämer, 2015: 381). Yet unmade films have been comparatively underutilised within academic scholarship. This research talk will outline ways archival material on unmade films (such as screenplays, concept art and correspondence) can be utilised to frustrate existing methodological processes and as a result, offers new methods for analysing the production process that underpins all films – those that are completed, and those that never see the light of day.