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      Mr David Heinemann

      ROLE: Senior Lecturer in Creative Media
      SCHOOL: Arts & Creative Industries
      DEPARTMENT: School of Film
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 3590
      EMAIL: D.Heinemann@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        • MFA (Master of Fine Arts), Film, Columbia University, New York
        • BA (Hons) English Literature, University of British Columbia, Canada
        • PGCertHE, Middlesex University

        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        • film directing and producing
        • screenwriting and script development
        • documentary theory and practice
        • sound design

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        • truth, ethics and reconstruction in the documentary film
        • the voice in the cinema, theory and practice
        • Deleuze and film theory
        • neo-formalist and cognitivist film theory and analysis

        Current and Past Research Projects

        Articles and chapters in edited books:

        • 'Siren Song: The Narrating Voice in Two Films by Raúl Ruiz', Comparative Cinema, 1:3, 2013.
        • 'Michael and Gertrud: Art and the Artist in the Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer' in Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts, eds. Steven Allen and Laura Hubner, Intellect Books: Bristol, 2012.
        • 'The Creative Voice: Free Indirect Speech in the Cinema of Rohmer and Bresson', The New Soundtrack, 2:1, 2012.
        • 'Vision, Volition, Re-Vision: Point of View in La Collectionneuse, Le Genou de Claire and Le Beau mariage', published in Rohmer et les autres, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007.

        Conferences:

        • Film-Philosophy, King's College, London, September 2012, paper entitled 'Possible Ends: Suicide and Grace in Jansenist Narrative Cinema'
        • Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts, University of Winchester, September 2009, paper entitled "Dreyer's Michael: Painting the Canvas of the Soul"
        • Screen Sounds: Sound in French Cinema, Kings College, London, April 2009, paper entitled "The Creative Voice: Free Indirect Speech in the Cinema of Rohmer, Resnais and Bresson"
        • Short Film Symposium, 50th Cork Film Festival, Ireland, October 2005, paper entitled "The Short Films of Eric Rohmer"

        Practice-based research:

        • Producer on Forgiveness, feature documentary in development, director Elizabeth Stopford, White Rabbit Films, 2013.
        • Producer, editor, sound designer of short film The Ice Cream Van, dir. Shane Vahey, Apex Arts/Waltham Forest Arts Council.
          • in post-production
        • Sound designer of short film Goblin Market (2012), dir. Anna Blandford.
          • Encounters Film Festival, Bristol 2012
        • Sound designer of Burn My Body (2010), dir. Fyzal Boulifa, B3 Media/UK Film Council.
          • Official Selection, BFI London Film Festival 2010
          • Encounters Film Festival, Bristol 2010
          • London Short Film Festival 2011
        • Sound designer of Whore (2009), dir. Fyzal Boulifa, B3 Media/UK Film Council.
          • Grand Prix du Jury, Angers Premiers Plans 2010
          • Jury Prize for Best Short Film, London East End Film Festival 2010
        • Sound designer, Afternoon (2007), dir. Fyzal Boulifa, B3 Media/UK Film Council.

        Publication Feed

        Voices apart

        Heinemann, David and Nevardauskaite, Elvina (2020) Voices apart. [Film/Video]

        Unburied

        Heinemann, David and Nevardauskaite, Elvina (2018) Unburied. [Film/Video]

        Remember, thou art clay

        Heinemann, David and Nevardauskaite, Elvina (2017) Remember, thou art clay. [Film/Video]

        The French documentary in context: genealogy, aesthetics, ethics

        Heinemann, David and Tay, Sharon Lin (2014) The French documentary in context: genealogy, aesthetics, ethics. Studies in French Cinema , 14 (3). pp. 157-166. ISSN 1471-5880

        Siren song: the narrating voice in two films by Raúl Ruiz

        Heinemann, David (2013) Siren song: the narrating voice in two films by Raúl Ruiz. Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema , 1 (3). pp. 66-75. ISSN 2014-8933

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