Dennis Augustsson
Course coordinator for the filmmaking courses
Dennis has a broad background in visual communication ranging from graphic design to filmmaking. He holds a PhD in learning sciences and has been teaching filmmaking for 20 years. Examples of work are the documentary “Reenactors” exploring the reenactment of “Battle of Wisby 1361” , and the design and production of the audiovisual experience of a permanent exhibition on the theme at The Swedish History Museum:
https://historiska.se/utstallningar/medieval-massacre/
Competences
- Film and Video produktion
- Scripting
- Documentary
Teaches
- Filmmaking 1 and 2
- Filmmaking and Livestreaming
Contact
Joshka Wessels
Lecturer Communication for Development
Joshka is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Communication – K3, with a background in visual anthropology and cultural geography. In addition to producing TV documentaries for BBC World and Al Jazeera English, she has also created Virtual Reality 360 experiences for which she has won awards. She is keen on exploring the use of video and immersive media in research and combining her academic and media production skills in her innovative research methods.
Competences
- Immersive video prodcution
Teaches
- Communication for Development
Contact
- tele
Magnus Denker
Manager PrintLab
Magnus is educated at ‘School of Photography, Gothenburg University’.
In addition to his position at Malmö University, he is working as an artist.
He started in the analog tradition with film and large-format camera but works today, exclusively digitally.
Some of his interests include the peripheral urban landscape and Photography 3.0, the world of extended reality.
Examples of photo projects: THE LIGHTS OF THE RED CITY and LOOKING WEST THINK EAST.
Right now, he is working with two photo projects IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CRANE (fictional story about Malmö) and CONCRETE STAIRS
His main field of teaching are Photography, Photoshop and Lightroom. and teach, among others, at the following courses and programs, The Photographic Image and Visual Communication.
He is responsible for the Photo studio and the PrintLab at Malmö university.
Competences
- Photo
Teaches
- Fotografiska bilden
Contact
- magnus.denker@mau.se
- tele
- Home page www.denker.se
Martin Hennel
Role
Martin started out as a musician in the mid ‘70’s touring all over Sweden and recording two albums with his band. He got interested in music production and built a studio where he produced and recorded albums for a lot of artists:
(https://www.popfakta.se/sv/artist/e/251c2b96-8caf-4e37-b455-e13b28370290/martin-hennel/) – including the Grammy-winning album “På Lyckliga Gatan “by the group Docenterna.
Since the late ‘90’s he has been working as a sound designer for films (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1144254/?ref_=fn_all_nme_1) including the Oscar nominated documentary “Burma VJ”.
2003 he accepted a position at Malmö University (né Malmö Högskola) as a teacher of sound design and now he shares his time between teaching and doing sound design.
Hugo Boothby
Role
Hugo is a lecturer, researcher media producer working within media and communication studies, he specializes in radio, podcasting and sound production. Hugo is currently working on LISTEN (Driving Urban Transitions) an EU financed research project that uses podcasting as a participatory action research method. Before moving to Malmö Hugo worked for 10 years as a sound engineer and radio producer with BBC Radio in London. He has also worked with Sveriges Radio, and as a freelance radio producer. Hugo’s teaching and research aims to integrate theory and practice exploring how media production generates new knowledge.
Competences
- Sound design
Teaches
- Communication for Development
Contact
- tele
Pia Jönsson
Role
Pia is an animator with an interest in exploring the soul of the animated character and how doing so can facilitate alternative understandings of empathy. She is also interested in immersive storytelling through the use of binaural sound, olfactory, and tactility. She has a background in animation and film. She studied film and animation at Surrey Institute of Art and Design (now University for the Creative Arts) and at Nottingham Trent University with supervisors at the University of Edinburg, Edinburgh College of Art. When not teaching she keeps one foot in the creative industries by making animations and films at a production company and creative bureau with offices in London and Paris. Before teaching at Malmö University she taught film and animation for 13 years at two Universities in London where she together with another colleague designed and ran a BA in Animation and an MA in Digital Film and Animation at Sir John Cass Department of Art Media and Design. Pia is also an artist and makes moving image work that investigates pushing and breaking the boundaries between the story pace, the viewing space, the screening space and the viewer. Her works have been exhibited in a number of touring exhibitions in the UK most recently the Sequences exhibition that toured to Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Peterborough, Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa, Furniture Works, Commercial Road, London, Lighthouse, Poole.
Competences
- Animation
- Photo
Teaches
- Visual Communication
Contact
- tele
Mikael Rundberg
Course coordination Film and Livestreaming