Dr Alex Lichtenfels
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Film Production
Biography
Dr Alex Lichtenfels is Senior Lecturer in Film Production, in the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology at University of Salford. His research interests focus on devised filmmaking practices, asking how models drawn from theatrical and performance traditions can enable filmmakers to develop new processes and forms. The goal of his practice is to create an explicitly ethical space, where filmmakers and audiences share in the creation of ‘events’, moments of creative practice that challenge established ways of understanding the world, and create new ones. In 2020, he coedited a special issue of the journal Performance Matters, titled ‘Copresence with the Camera’. In 2023 he co-founded INEFF, the International Network of Experimental Fiction Filmmaking with Pavel Prokopic (University of Salford) and Matthew Hawkins (London South Bank University). His current practice as research project is a collaborative devised adaptation of Euripides’s The Bacchae, which investigates the relationship between fiction and the devising process in film.
Areas of Research
Ethics in filmmaking practice and film viewing
Practice as research models in filmmaking
Devised filmmaking
Experimental fiction filmmaking.
Alex is the Subject Group Head for Film. He also leads the Collaboration and Co-creation module for the MA Film Production, in which students investigate and practice a series of non-industrial filmmaking processes. In the past, Alex has also taught specialist Directing, Producing and Film Theory modules.
He is currently supervising both PhD and MPhil students, and welcomes postgraduate research applications.
Qualifications
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Phd
2008 - 2012 -
MA Film and Television studies
2005 - 2006 -
BA Film with Television studies
2002 - 2005