Directed by Dr John Deery (PhD Cinematic Arts, MDes, BDes (Hons), PDGE)
John Deery is a creative practitioner and educator who works across multiple disciplines, including Filmmmaking, Music, Painting, Photography, Design, Digital Art and more. John has also been a founding member of several arts groups including the Creative Village Artists and Derry Creatives. He has a PDGE in Art Education, Undergraduate and Masters Degrees in Design and Photography and a Ph.D in Cinematic Arts and Filmmaking. John currently lectures in Creative Media and Digital Filmmaking in Nerve Centre and Ulster University.
JACK (Deery 2019) was created as a final film for a Screen Production Research PhD in Cinematic Arts at Ulster University, along with the accompanying thesis and support materials. This Primary aim of the research project was to investigate ways in which we as filmmakers might represent issues of mental distress and suicidal ideation more constructively. Developing on the themes addressed in the short film DROP (2014), created as a final Masters degree film project, the primary objective of the final PhD research film JACK (2019) was to translate the protective theoretical principles of the Papageno Effect, proposed by Dr Thomas Niederkrotenthaler and colleagues at the Medical University of Vienna, into filmmaking practice.
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