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Paul Gray's Outputs (26)

Working with Incarcerated Communities: Representing Women in Prison on Screen (2022)
Book Chapter
Gray, P., & Schwan, A. (2022). Working with Incarcerated Communities: Representing Women in Prison on Screen. In A. Schwan, & T. Thomson (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities (105-128). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11886-9_7

This chapter considers public arts and humanities scholarship and practice in the context of penal institutions, with a focus on women’s prisons and film-making. It argues for a critical-reflective practice, highlighting the opportunities and challen... Read More about Working with Incarcerated Communities: Representing Women in Prison on Screen.

On the Outside: film-making as story-telling through introspective re-enactment, and the significance of anonymity in the spoken word (2020)
Journal Article
Gray, P. (2020). On the Outside: film-making as story-telling through introspective re-enactment, and the significance of anonymity in the spoken word. Media Practice and Education, 21(3), 185-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2020.1800299

On the Outside (On the Outside. 2019. Film. Directed by Paul Gray. UK: Good Well Films), is a 42 minute film that is the outcome of a participatory film project involving women serving sentences in HM Prison Polmont, Scotland. Scripts were developed... Read More about On the Outside: film-making as story-telling through introspective re-enactment, and the significance of anonymity in the spoken word.

Film: On the Outside, Official Selection, Orlando Film Festival, Oct 2019 (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Gray, P. Film: On the Outside, Official Selection, Orlando Film Festival, Oct 2019. [Video]. Exhibited at Orlando, USA. 17 September 2019 - 24 September 2019. (Unpublished)

On the Outside, Official Selection at the 14th Orlando Film Festival, 17-24 October 2017

Representing Women in Prison (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A., & Gray, P. (2019, March). Representing Women in Prison. Paper presented at Scottish Universities-Prisons Network Conference: ‘Empowering, Linking, Making'

Film: On the Outside (2019)
Digital Artefact
Gray, P. (2019). Film: On the Outside

On the Outside, is the outcome of an educational film project that was a collaboration with women who were serving sentences in HMP Polmont.
The project was undertaken in two parts. The first part ran inside the prison over a period of three months,... Read More about Film: On the Outside.

Film: On the Outside, Voices from Prison, London Literature Festival Screening during Koestler Trust ‘I’m Still Here’ exhibition, South Bank Centre, London, 24 Oct 2018 (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Gray, P. Film: On the Outside, Voices from Prison, London Literature Festival Screening during Koestler Trust ‘I’m Still Here’ exhibition, South Bank Centre, London, 24 Oct 2018. 24 October 2018. (Unpublished)

Voices from Prison, London Literature Festival
Screened during the Koestler Trust ‘I’m Still Here’ exhibition in the South Bank Centre, at a spoken word event as part of the London Literature Festival.
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/131... Read More about Film: On the Outside, Voices from Prison, London Literature Festival Screening during Koestler Trust ‘I’m Still Here’ exhibition, South Bank Centre, London, 24 Oct 2018.

Film: And Violet (2017)
Digital Artefact
Gray, P. (2017). Film: And Violet. [Film]

A coming of age drama about the interwoven and unravelling lives of teenage daughter Violet, her adoptive Mum and her birth Mum.
When Violet and her adoptive mum visit a small Scottish town one summer, they unexpectedly run into Violet’s estranged b... Read More about Film: And Violet.

Film: Tree of Tule (2012)
Digital Artefact
Gray, P. (2012). Film: Tree of Tule

While on his travels, an adventurous young boy meets a magical ancient tree and he embarks on a quest across Mexico to help the tree find a new home. Duration: 10’10”, Director & Producer: Paul Gray

Film: Halfway Home (2008)
Digital Artefact
Gray, P. (2008). Film: Halfway Home

34-year old Melanie lives with the knowledge she will die within 10 years due to autoimmune disease. Having survived a near fatal operation, Melanie escaped the stresses of city life to search for her ideal home for the time she has left – but it’s n... Read More about Film: Halfway Home.

Film: Skeins (2007)
Digital Artefact
Gray, P. (2007). Film: Skeins

From knitting on a crowded bus to pearling in a local pub, the public knitting craze has found its way to Scotland . But is it just a fashion fad or does it say more about our way of living than we could imagine?
Duration: 10’15”
Director Paul Gra... Read More about Film: Skeins.

Crossing the Atlantic: uneasy spaces. (2006)
Exhibition / Performance
Gray, P. (2006). Crossing the Atlantic: uneasy spaces. Exhibited at New York, USA. 12 September 2006 - 1 November 2006. (Unpublished)

All for one. (2006)
Exhibition / Performance
Gray, P. (2006). All for one. Exhibited at Edinburgh. 18 June 2006 - 18 June 2006. (Unpublished)

No abstract available.

All for One. (2005)
Book
Gray, P. (2005). All for One. Stills

Paul Gray's book All For One, published on the occasion of the exhibition 'All For One' by Paul Gray at Stills in 2005, includes 45 pages of stunning colour photography, a forward by Paul Gray and a conversation between Stuart Cosgrove and Paul Gray... Read More about All for One..

Teallach — a flexible user-interface development environment for object database applications (2003)
Journal Article
Barclay, P. J., Griffiths, T., McKirdy, J., Kennedy, J., Cooper, R., Paton, N. W., & Gray, P. (2003). Teallach — a flexible user-interface development environment for object database applications. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 14(1), 47-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1045-926x%2802%2900056-3

The Teallach project has adapted model-based user-interface development techniques to the systematic creation of user-interfaces for object-oriented database applications. Model-based approaches aim to provide designers with a more principled approac... Read More about Teallach — a flexible user-interface development environment for object database applications.

Filmmaking practice-as-research: a case study in pursuit of subtext through AI generated dialogue
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gray, P. (2023, September). Filmmaking practice-as-research: a case study in pursuit of subtext through AI generated dialogue. Paper presented at MeCCSA 2023, Glasgow

Practice led research in filmmaking and screenwriting that explores the potential for creating meaningful dialogue with subtext, through the use of AI chat bots. The presentation will include a short film alongside a case study paper, exploring the... Read More about Filmmaking practice-as-research: a case study in pursuit of subtext through AI generated dialogue.