Emeritus Professor

Room: Ruskin 109

Email: anthony.harrild@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2218
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2218

Anthony Harrild is Emeritus Professor of Art with the Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University. He has previously served as both Head of the Cambridge School of Art and Associate Dean for the Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, with faculty-wide responsibility for Research and Resource Development.

Professor Harrild has combined the career of a university academic with that of a producer/director for film and television. He has taught and researched in the Art and Design Faculties at Brighton, Kingston and Northumbria Universities and has held the titles of Professor of Film and Television at the Northern Media School of Sheffield Hallam and Professor of Film and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Media at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design.

At Farnham he was the guiding light behind the development of the Animation Research Centre and its associated archives of the work of Bob Godfrey and Halas and Batchelor. He has worked closely with the John Libbey Press to commission books through the centre, including "Yuri Norstein's Tale of Tales" by Claire Kitson, the influential former Head of Channel 4 Animation. He also had institute wide responsibility for research (including the RAE submission in 2001) and research degrees in collaboration with the University of Brighton.

Working with Bruce Russell, Visiting Professor of Fine Art, he is currently in production and in planning for two arts documentaries for television and gallery exhibition. The former explores the life and work of the American abstract pattern and decoration painter, Kendall Shaw; the latter brings together the work of contemporary, middle-generation abstract artists from Europe and the USA.

He has worked very regularly as a producer/director. His productions include: drama and drama-documentary films for Channel 4; sports documentaries and documentary series for terrestrial television, German cinema and world wide video distribution; script commissions from the BBC and Yorkshire Television; as well as commercials and corporate productions.

Sports production is a speciality. He was the official filmmaker for the three largest sporting events in the world: The World Cup, The Olympics and The European Football Championships. He has also had five of his films invited, in competition, to international festivals (including two prize winners, "Homeground" and "Tor!").

Much of Professor Harrild's work has been filmed in mainland Europe, principally Germany and Italy. He has been involved in a series of international finance/co-productions with German Companies (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Neue Media, Dino Music, Radio Television Luxembourg +), Italian (Racing Pictures), Swiss (International Sports and Leisure), the US multi-nationals (Pepsi-Co, Coca-Cola) and Japan (Dentsu, the world's largest advertising agency). His continuing researches in this area led to his working with the ex-Head of Eurimages, Barrie Ellis-Jones, on the development of a masters programme in European Film Production, to enable students to study the culture of European cinema in the context of the national and trans-national institutions and funding mechanisms that operate throughout the Council of Europe.

Professor Harrild was educated at the Universities of Exeter and St Andrews and at the Slade School of Fine Art. He received his PhD from Sheffield Hallam University.

He has published articles on directors as diverse as Miklos Jancso, Sam Peckinpah, Michael Powell and Alain Tanner. He was editor of the short lived but influential journal "Film Form" and, more recently, editor-in-chief of POINT the Art and Design Research Journal, published by CHEAD, from issue 7 to issue 11 (1998-2001). He was also issue editor of number 11 "Digital Aesthetics".

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