Pavel Prokopic

United Kingdom (residence)
research interests: Film Aesthetics, Film Performance, Film Ontology, Cinematography, Experimental Film, Art Cinema, Fiction Film Directing, Affect theory, Film Semiotics
affiliation: University of Salford
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Pavel Prokopic is a filmmaker, researcher and lecturer, currently working as a lecturer in Film Production at the University of Salford; previously he was based in the Film Studies department at Queen’s University Belfast as a lecturer in Film and Screen Production. Pavel completed an AHRC-funded practice research project entitled Affective Cinema, which won the Award in Creative Media Research. As an independent filmmaker, Pavel has written and directed several dramas and experimental projects, and worked as a freelance cinematographer in London, and as a visiting lecturer in film at the University of Westminster and various other UK institutions. He also worked as a content director/producer on an IoT research project The Living Room of the Future with BBC R&D and the British Council, and has taken part in various artistic residencies and collaborations, including the Visual Research Network and the Sidney Nolan Trust. His work has been widely published, exhibited and presented, including FACT in Liverpool, Grosvenor Gallery in Manchester and Victoria & Albert Museum in London. He holds a PhD in Film from the AHRC North West Consortium/University of Salford, and a Master’s degree in Film Aesthetics from Magdalen College, University of Oxford. For more information, please visit pavelprokopic.com

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  • Affective Atmosphere: A Non-Representational Method of Devising Film Performance and Fiction (2022) author(s): Pavel Prokopic published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    Affective atmosphere is a new method of directing film performance and producing experimental fiction in the tradition of art cinema, which emerged from a wider practice research project entitled Affective Cinema, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. As an approach to filmmaking, affective atmosphere prioritises the becoming of an event over a narrative/production plan, and uses experimental production strategies to maximise the potential of spontaneous directorial decisions and the unpredictable flow of reality for generating alternative narrative/dramatic film structures. The method is rooted in practitioner know-how stimulated by reflection, but also informed by a synthesis of the key concepts of Deleuze and Guattari, and theoretical writings on atmosphere (Böhme, Griffero) and film performance (Benjamin, Del Río). In this way, the project meaningfully applies philosophical concerns to filmmaking, expanding, in the process, on theoretical understanding, while embedding this knowledge tacitly in artistic practice. Furthermore, the research leads to the development of a set of applicable film production methods, unified by a clear rationale and a creative purpose linked to demonstrable outcomes.
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