The BEI Film Unit

The BEI film unit provides a film-making service to all departments within the School with the aim of increasing the profile of the School and individual departments, enriching the student experience and also assisting with the provision of information and training.

Films can be provided in a format suitable for the web and on DVD.
Some examples of recent projects can be seen below and by using the links on the left.

History of the Computer Science Department

Roger Johnson, College Fellow and Emeritus Reader in Computer Science, talks about the history of the department, the first computer science department in the world. Charts some of the innovative developments at Birkbeck, including natural language translation, the worlds first magnetic drum storage device and the first MSc in Computer Science (15 minutes) June 2011.

Business Week Film

This is a short promotional film to advertise Business Week (3 minutes) Recorded June 2010.

Interview with Daniel Geey

As part of a series of talks organized by the Birkbeck Sports Business Centre Daniel Geey, Associate in Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP's Compettion and EU Regulatory Law Group, talks about football broadcasting and the recent case of Mrs Murphy, a publican who was prosecuted for using a Greek decoder card to show live Premier League matches in her pub. November 2011 (9 minutes)

PhD Students in Amsterdam

We filmed a group of PhD students as they attended their first conference and captured their experience of doing a PhD at Birkbeck (8 minutes) Recorded July 2010.

SSHP Taster lecture - Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele

Recorded as part of the School of Social Science, History and Philosophy's taster event, Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele talking on "The power of swearwords" - contains strong language (33 minutes)

If you would like to find out more please contact Barnaby Booth  b.booth@bbk.ac.uk ext 6748