Rob HARDCASTLE

Rob is currently Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead for Film Production at the University of Canberra.

He has published and presented on subjects including how advanced conceptual thinking can help address issues around sustainability and exclusivity in industrial filmmaking, the propagation of misinformation and disinformation in television documentary films, and the film archive as a contested space in the context of historical and enduring colonizer narratives. His practice-based research is concerned with devising innovative methodologies to help provide new perspectives on the past, by exploring silenced or missing voices, more-than-human explorations of place and identities, temporalities, and memory.

As a filmmaker, Rob has numerous screen credits in cinema and broadcast. Previous to filmmaking, he was an audio producer, recording and mixing in diverse environments, from jungles and forests to recording studios and concert halls around the world.

As an educator, Rob has taught at universities for over a decade, exploring the connection between theory and practice, considering film within a broad socio-cultural and historical context, and encouraging a pragmatic challenging of embedded and problematic cultures in industrial filmmaking practice.