Film studios are architectural spaces designed to support every stage in a film’s production, yet they’ve rarely featured as the subject of extensive analysis compared with film styles, directors and genres of cinema. Featuring STUDIOTEC’s research about film studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy 1930-60.

Film expert Howard Berry will take the audience behind-the-scenes of the legendary Elstree studios. Featuring oral histories of production staff who ‘made’ the studio: from carpenters to set-designers, floor managers to camera operators.

What happens when the ‘irresistible force’ of film director meets the often ‘immovable object’ of industrial architecture? A visual exploration of over 130 years of industrial architecture as cinematic stage in: mountainscapes, waterscapes, cityscapes, factoryscapes and travelscapes.