Moving Image in a Doctoral Frame

Professor Pratāp Rughani

in conversation with

Edwin Mingard and Alessandra Ferrini

In association with the Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ) and the UAL Doctoral School

Presentations and Panel: 4.30pm - 6pm

followed by a reception: 6pm - 7pm

"Why make moving image practice in a Doctoral frame?

What can film-making mean as research?

Join LCC Doctoral researchers to explore the journey of moving image making as experienced by students and supervisors. Why do it and what's possible?"

Featuring artists’ documentary work within the context of a PhD highlights not only the finished creative outputs but also the reflective, critical, and methodological processes that underpin them and informs Knowledge Exchange.

The discussion will contribute to an upcoming journal feature in the Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ): 'Moving Image in a Doctoral Frame’ with the participation of MIRAJ Co-editors Michael Mazière and Lucy Reynolds.

Biographies

Alessandra Ferrini is an artist, researcher, and educator working with moving images, installation, performance-lecture, and writing. Her practice is rooted in lens-based media, anticolonial and antifascist practices, memory and critical whiteness studies, as well as historiographical and archival methodologies. She investigates the enduring legacies of Italian colonialism and Fascism, with a specific interest in the past and present relations between Italy, the Mediterranean region, and the African continent. Her work Gaddafi in Rome: Anatomy of a Friendship, which stems from her practice-based PhD at LCC/UAL completed in 2024, was commissioned by the 60th Venice Biennale and premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR 2025).

https://www.alessandraferrini.info/

Edwin Mingard, is a socially-engaged visual artist. He works principally with moving image, making standalone artists' film and installations. The work often plays with mainstream and accessible forms – documentary, music video, magazine – so as to move beyond a traditional gallery audience.

He is interested in who makes work, how, why, for whom, and why that matters. He often produces work within a discrete community or interest group, making work with a personal connection to his collaborators and broader social relevance. He aims to celebrate and make visible the joy of the making process itself and explore its value for individual and collective growth and change. His developing processes enable diverse groups of people to make work together. The focus is mirrored in the subject matter of his work, which deals with themes around our social environment and relationships with one another.

https://edwinmingard.com/

Dr. Pratāp Rughani, Professor of Documentary Practice ay UAL, is an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker and academic. Many of his films conceive documentary as a crucible in which people of radically different perspectives, cultures and politics come into relation. He is increasingly focused on configuring filming and viewing to enable deeper listening and dialogue. This emphasis centres ‘Restorative Narrative’ that aims to transmute the slide towards toxic polarisation in non-fiction storytelling to enable repair and healing and thus deepen inter-cultural communication.

https://www.arts.ac.uk/research/ual-staff-researchers/pratap-rughani

This is part ofPratāp's Professorial Platform event 'Taking Heart in a Time of Hatred', taking place at LCC on 29 April 2026. Please book your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ual-professorial-platform-lecture-taking-heart-in-a-time-of-hatred-tickets-1895946640439?aff=oddtdtcreator

Image: Film still, Gaddafi in Rome: Anatomy of a Friendship (Alessandra Ferrini, 2024).