Art and Film
at University of Kent (Canterbury)

Course Description

Art and Film offers a unique opportunity to combine art history and film studies in a single honours degree. It cuts across the boundaries of different visual media, exploring perspective, colour and light, movement, montage and the portrayal of painting, photography, drawings, prints and sculpture in film and video.

During the course we examine all kinds of works of art, including films and performance art, to learn the theories, movements and ideas that have shaped them. We also look at the settings (eg museums, galleries, cinemas) in which works of art and films are produced and viewed, examining how such settings affect our perceptions.

Staff at Kent have expertise in the fields of film, photography and contemporary art, and the modules reflect these interests, such as the origins of cinema within the 19th century, and the uses of still and moving images by modernist and avant-garde artists and film-makers.