OSCAR WINNING DIRECTOR RETURNS TO 'INSPIRING' SUSSEX

Kevin Macdonald, maker of film inspired by archives at Sussex University, to give free public lecture

Kevin Macdonald will talk about his crowd-sourced project Life in a Day, which tells the story of one day (24 July 2010) on Earth by using footage that tens of thousands of people around the world uploaded onto the video-sharing website YouTube.

Kicking off the spring term series of Sussex Lectures, his Mass Observation Anniversary Lecture on 26 January will describe how his idea for the film came from the records of ordinary people that he found in the Mass Observation Archive, based in Sussex University’s Library.

Another Mass Observation Anniversary Lecture will be given on 7 March by the historian David Kynaston, who will talk about ‘Reshaping our view of the “1945” moment and beyond’.

Those two events are among 13 free public lectures to be held at Sussex in the spring programme of the termly lecture series.