Ms Vron Harris

Lecturer in Film Production (Cinematography)

Vron Harris
  • School Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries

  • Department School of Film

  • Location London

Research activities

Vron Harris's three part film, The Staircase, investigates cinematic subjectivity and whether a film can simultaneously immerse us in a character's inner world while highlighting the inevitable chasm between their internal experience and outward presentation. By grappling with this fundamental tension between inner feeling and external facade, the film explores our understanding of human psychology as portrayed through characters on screen.


Biography

Vron Harris FHEA is an award-winning, internationally exhibited filmmaker. Vron’s practice is interested in the construction of film and the representation of time, space and emotion. There’s an interest in collaboration, and in creating film, particularly via the use of static camera and offscreen space. There’s an interest in the possibility of using still images to create a sense of movement and moving images to create a sense of stillness.

From 2016 to date, Vron is a Lecturer in Film Production at Middlesex University, teaching BA Film, specialising in cinematography and leading on the Screencraft and Short Film modules.

Prior to academia, Vron has over twenty years of experience as a freelance Producer/Director, Director of Photography, Editor and Artist. Vron has worked on a very wide range of projects in film, television, documentary and light entertainment, theatre, opera and art. Some highlights include multiple projects on Super 16mm as DP with Turner Prize winning artist Gillian Wearing, work as a Producer / Director / DP / Editor for multiple branded film content and corporate shorts, Lighting Camerawoman on many television programmes including Scrap Heap Challenge and Junk Yard Wars, documentaries and live news and work as camera operator, photosonics technician, focus puller and clapper loader on various large budget commercials, promos and feature films.

Vron completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Cinematography at the National Film and Television School and holds an MA in Photography from the London College of Communication and BA in Film, Television and Photographic Arts from the University of Westminster.

Qualifications

Title: FHEA

Notes: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Date: 01 Oct 2016

Institution: Higher Education Academy


Title: 2016 - Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Date: 30 Sept 2016

Institution: Kingston University


Title: MA in Photography

Date: 31 Dec 2007

Institution: London College of Communication,


Title: NFTS Post Graduate Diploma in Screen Arts and Sciences - Cinematography

Date: 31 Jul 1997

Institution: The National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield


Title: BA(Hons) Degree in Film, Video and Photographic Arts

Date: 31 Jul 1992

Institution: The University of Westminster, London


Title: Foundation in Media Studies

Date: 31 Jul 1989

Institution: London College of Printing, London.


External activities

  • David Wolf Kaye Future Potential Awards Moving Image Mentor, Forestry Commission England, Royal Geographic Society, (IBG), 2024
  • Judge on the panel for the Earth Photo Moving Image Award , Forestry Commission England, Royal Geographic Society, (IBG), 2019
  • Prizes and Awards

  • Long listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2025, Aesthetica, 2025
  • Long listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2019, Aesthetica, 2019
  • 2018 Earth Photo Moving Image Award , Forestry Commission England and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG),, 2018
  • Publications