Dr Daisy Asquith
Staff details
Position
Head of School, Media Communications & Cultural Studies
Department
Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
d.asquith (@gold.ac.uk)
Links
Documentary Film, Television, Representation, Intersectionalities
Daisy is a documentary filmmaker and teacher of blended theory and practice. She is currently Head of the School of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies.
Daisy convenes the MAs in Filmmaking: Screen Documentary and Experimental Film and the theory module Representing Reality. Her MA students have won awards for their graduation films and screened at festivals internationally, as well as securing work with leading practitioners in the industry.
Academic qualifications
- PhD Creative and Critical Practice, University of Sussex 2018
- MA Cultural History, Memory & Identity, University of Brighton 2013
Teaching and supervision
- MA Filmmaking: Screen Documentary
- MA Filmmaking: Experimental Film
Research interests
Daisy's research interests include documentary storytelling, with particular reference to new forms and hybrids, autobiographical film, gender, sexuality and class in film and television, representation, archive film, found footage, and home video.
Featured publications
2022:
Queerama: Re-imagining Queer Pasts and Futures
Book chapter
2016:
Whose Shame is it Anyway?
Book chapter
2020:
Single Mums Do Opera
TV Documentary
2017:
Queerama: A Century of Gay Rights and Desires on Film
Feature Documentary
2015:
Storyville - After the Dance.
Feature Documentary
Publications and research outputs
Book Section
- Queerama: Re-imagining Queer Pasts and Futures Asquith, Daisy. 2022. Queerama: Re-imagining Queer Pasts and Futures. In: Joanna Zylinska, ed. The Future of Media. London: Goldsmiths Press, pp. 177-194. ISBN 9781913380144
- Whose Shame is it Anyway? Asquith, Daisy. 2016. Whose Shame is it Anyway? In: Paul Booth and Lucy Bennett, eds. Seeing Fans. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781501318450
Film/Video
- Opera Mums with Bryony Kimmings Asquith, Daisy and Kimmings, Bryony. 2020. Opera Mums with Bryony Kimmings.
- Queerama: A Century of Gay Rights and Desires on Film [DVD] Asquith, Daisy. 2019. Queerama: A Century of Gay Rights and Desires on Film [DVD].
- Science on Buses Asquith, Daisy. 2017. Science on Buses.
Show/Exhibition
- This is Not Us Asquith, Daisy. 2018. This is Not Us. In: "THIS IS NOT US", ATTENBOROUGH CENTRE FOR CREATIVE ARTS, United Kingdom, APRIL 2018.
Thesis
- Filming the Shadows Asquith, Daisy. 2012. Filming the Shadows. Doctoral thesis, Brighton University & Sussex University
Professional projects
2020 OPERA MUMS WITH BRYONY KIMMINGS 59 mins for BBC2
2017 STORYVILLE: QUEERAMA 70 mins BBC/BFI
2017 SCIENCE ON BUSES 6x5mins for UoS/Cern
2015 STORYVILLE: AFTER THE DANCE 77 mins BBC/IFB
2014 STORYVILLE: VELORAMA 70 mins BFI/BBC
2013 CRAZY ABOUT ONE DIRECTION 47 mins for C4
2013 THE QUEEN OF NORTH SHIELDS 29 mins for BBC1
2012 BRITAIN'S HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS 48 mins for C4
2011 BRITAIN: MY NEW HOME 5x48 mins for C4
2010 MY WEIRD AND WONDERFUL FAMILY 48 mins for C4
2009 LIZ SMITH’S SUMMER CRUISE 58 mins for BBC4
2009 KIMBERLEY: YOUNG MUM 48 mins for C4
2008 CLOWNS 58 mins for BBC2
2007 THE OLDEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD 48 mins for C4
2005 HOUSE CLEARERS 48 mins for C4
2004 WHATEVER: A TEENAGE MUSICAL 50 mins for C4
2002 MARRYING A STRANGER 2x50 mins for C4
2000 FIFTEEN 2x50 mins for C4
1998 THE DECISION 2x50 mins for C4
