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Dani Landau is a Lecturer in Filmmaking at the University of Plymouth, part of the School of Art, Design and Architecture within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business. He works part-time, dedicating half his week to academic activities. His role combines teaching, research, and collaborative projects focused on documentary practices, cinematography, and experimental media arts.
Landau’s research explores relationships between place, people, and image, employing technologies like photogrammetry, lidar, and augmented reality. He collaborates internationally, including with Filmuniversität Babelsberg on culturally informed post-humanist approaches to film production. His work also integrates philosophy, particularly the ideas of Alfred North Whitehead, to analyze how media practices create new relational modes.
In teaching, he leads modules such as Professional Filmmaker (partnering with third-sector organizations on issue-based films), Screen Dialogues (linking film studies to practice), and Experimentation (encouraging innovative short-form media). He supervises PhD candidates in practice-based research across filmmaking, photography, and socially engaged arts.
Landau’s creative background includes roles as a cinematographer on a Bolivian feature film addressing indigenous land rights and socially engaged arts projects empowering marginalized communities to document their own narratives. He has also served as a Government Advisor on Place, reflecting his interdisciplinary engagement with spatial and cultural dynamics.
