Katie Davies is a visual media artist, filmmaker and Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Practice and Media and Journalism at UWE Bristol. Her film works and installations expose the fine line between the telling of stories and the writing of history and her current research project Peripheral Histories, applies the use of VR technology to documentary film making.

Katie is a practice-led PhD supervisor and her writing on practice-led research has been included in several US and British publications. For several years she has been researching and lecturing on issues related to border zones and has worked with UN Armistice Commission and United States Forces in Korea to research and film the Korean border from within the Korean Demilitarised Zone, The British Home Office to document the journey and experience of the British citizenship ceremonies and her PhD thesis and film The Separation Line (2012), aimed to make tangible the sensation of the sovereign border and how it manifested in the town of Wootton Bassett. Documenting the repatriation ceremonies, the video work explores the iterative transformation of the town’s social practices via the ritual of the repatriation ceremonies, to become Royal Wootton Bassett.

She recently completed a six month commission for Berwick Visual Arts and Berwick Film and Media art Festival, funded by The Arts Council North East to produce Lawes of The Marches, a three screen and single screen installation which documented the transformation of the English and Scottish border during the Scottish referendum vote in 2014.

The Lawes of The Marches by Katie Davies from BerwickFilmFest on Vimeo.

The Lawes of The Marches was selected for the International Competition at Oberhausen Film Festival, 2015.

More of Katie’s work can be seen at www.katiedavies.com

Links