Terry Flaxton is Professor of Cinematography and Lens Based Media in the Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education. Terry has had a long career as a practicing cinematographer, shooting various documentaries, dramas, commercials, concerts and promos and the second electronic to cinema theatre releases in 1986 (one other 1986 production was Signal Seven in the USA). The programmes he has shot have been nominated for a Prix Italia, and awarded Promax’s (Gold, Silver and Bronze), RTS awards. Flaxton was shooting for Apple in 1983 on Ridley Scott’s celebrated and iconic '1984' commercial which launched the Apple Macintosh, shot and technically directed and lit BBC Northern Irelands biggest outside multi-camera shoot with 19 cameras on Van Morrisson at the opening of the Waterfront Concert Center (and also the promo, the Healing Game) and also technically directed the worlds first 18 country 10 camera live corporate satellite shoot in 1992 for Philips Industries – Terry has also shot many well known actors and musicians including the Rolling Stones, Eurythmics, Naomi Harris, The Everly Brothers, Jason Issaacs, Gina McKee, Julie Amdrews, Madonna, Elvis Costello, Ioan Gruffudd, Julian and Andrew Lloyd Webber and so on.
He also wrote, produced, directed and edited programmes for terrestrial tv which have been nominated for BAFTAS, Grierson awards, and received nominations, awards and commendations for his cinematography, editing, directing and writing work. He has been commissioned by Channel 4 for feature script work and won various £50,000 awards from Creative England (in its prior form as South West Screen) and the Northern Ireland Film Commission for various shorts.
He has also taught at various universities throughout his career and won a prestigious AHRC Creative Research Fellowship followed by an AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship (plus various other awards totaling around £750,000). Equally he has had a distinguished career in art and exhibited work around the world at many festivals, had retrospectives (including the Rome Film Festival 2010), shown at various international Art Galleries, and also various cathedrals including Southwark, Gloucester, Bristol, Vasteras and a run at New York’s Cathedral of St John the Divine for 5 Months (Terry’s work has been asked back for another run in 2014 in its 3D form). One of the research works from Terry’s AHRC Creative Fellowship has been accepted into the permanent collection of the Harris Museum in Preston and is on continuous display and the Vice Chancellor of University of Bristol has commissioned a new 3D plasma triptych inspired by Dali’s Crucifixion entitled: The Intersection of Dreams.
Terry Flaxton has been involved in world leading research work with BBC Research and Development and the Faculty of Engineering at University of Bristol investigating the newest of Digital Cinematographic forms, to calibrate Higher Dynamic Range, Higher Frame Rate and Higher Resolution images for the best level of audience immersion. His earlier AHRC Creative Research Fellowship was the first practitioner lead research project into the effects of High Resolution in the World.
