Film & Television Studies/Fine Art
Film and television studies combined with fine art offers a genuinely unusual combination that brings together the critical and historical study of moving image media with the studio-based practice of visual art-making. Film and television studies asks how films and programmes are made, how they construct meaning through formal and stylistic choices, and how they reflect and shape culture and society. Fine art develops your practice as a visual artist, working in whatever media and conceptual territory matters to you, whether painting, sculpture, installation, photography, or digital media, and developing the intellectual and critical frameworks to contextualise and articulate that work.
At Aberystwyth University, this three-year full-time programme is offered in an environment that combines strong humanities scholarship with a commitment to creative practice. You will engage with film and television analysis, film history and theory, genre, narrative, and the cultural politics of moving image media, alongside fine art studio practice, art history, and the conceptual and critical dimensions of visual art-making. The combination opens up interesting connections: the history of cinema and television is deeply intertwined with the history of the visual arts, and practitioners in both fields increasingly move between moving image and static visual work.
Aberystwyth's small size and campus community provide a supportive and intellectually engaged environment for this kind of interdisciplinary study.
Graduates from this combination go on to careers as artists and in the creative industries, in film and television production, arts education, gallery and museum work, arts journalism and criticism, community arts, and cultural administration. The critical and practical skills developed by the degree are also applicable in media, communications, advertising, and digital content creation. Some graduates continue to postgraduate study in fine art, film studies, or curatorial practice.