Architecture + Cities Research Forum: “Using Film to Disseminate Research Results” by Marion Roberts

In this seminar Marion Roberts and the independent film maker, Jeremy Clancy, discussed their collaboration to make a short film at the end of Roberts’ Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellowship Project, Urban Design and the Urban Night. Making a film presented new challenges with regards to the imagined audience, scripting, presenting, filming and arranging the final dissemination, to which Clancy brought considerable experience and expertise. In the seminar colleagues were alerted to the benefits and pitfalls of the medium, and to that all important question, ‘if we were to do it again, how would we do it differently’? The film, Night Towns, 7 minutes long, was shown.