MSc in Film, Exhibition and Curation

Develop an informed, individual and authoritative curatorial voice in a supportive, creative and collaborative environment.

This one-year, full-time taught Masters programme combines rigorous critical thinking with experiments in creative practice, deepening your understanding of film and the ways in which it communicates with many audiences.  The programme can also be completed part-time over two years.

As a Film, Exhibition and Curation student, you’ll explore a series of approaches to the often neglected consideration of film’s movements and migrations within the context of the rich and varied festival, gallery, archive and exhibition cultures of Scotland, the UK and beyond.

You’ll work on imaginative curatorial projects, both independently and collaboratively, including with industry partners. Assignments range from pitches to programming, and you’ll be assessed in ways that support you in producing experimental work and discovering yourself as a reflective professional.

Our students come from a range of backgrounds and have gone on to careers across film exhibition and curation, in cultural mediation, in communications, research, and the arts, forming a connected international graduate community of engaged professionals. As the programme matures, this has led to a number of collaborations, both between alumni, and between current and former students.

The study of film can tell us so much not about the nature of the art of film, and about entertainment, but also about our habitat, and sense of fun and desire, how our cities work and our culture flows and inspires, and how the film industry delivers.  It’s brilliant that the University of Edinburgh is offering this relevant, insightful programme.