The Mediated City: The Imaging of Liverpool in Film
“Urban landscape and architecture are integral.” Anthony Ellis on how film can fix in our minds and memory a sense of place… General views are one of the more unusual aspects of filmmaking....

“Urban landscape and architecture are integral.” Anthony Ellis on how film can fix in our minds and memory a sense of place… General views are one of the more unusual aspects of filmmaking....
It’s been eighteen months since Yorkshire’s creative arts organisation IOU took over a backpackers’ hostel in the Upper Calder Valley. What happened next, for holidaymakers and artists alike? Laura Robertson stayed overnight to...
“The scenes that unfold are mysterious, baffling even.” Lorraine Bacchus gets to grips with psychomagic and ritual at Birkenhead’s Williamson Art Gallery… A 30-minute artists’ film can be quite a big ask of...
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from around the North of England and the rest of the UK – and loads of it’s free! Monday – For the...
“I think the city is a book and we can read it and re-read it.” Mike Pinnington spoke with author Jeff Young about his memoir, Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, our philosophical attachment...
Pitching, bribery and creative failure: BAFTA-nominated directors and national funding bodies share some candid advice on all areas of filmmaking, finds Kirsty Fitzpatrick, at Creative England’s latest (free) conference… I was instantly fond...
What does it take to create a magazine from scratch? Laura Robertson collected some insider secrets — from The Gourmand, The White Review, Dazed and magCulture – at one of the first ever Frieze Academy courses…...
Nominated by their tutors, Jack Welsh reveals the top art graduates from across the North-West region, from Blackpool to Wirral and everywhere in-between; a snapshot of this year’s ambitious degree show season… It’s that time of...