Jobs and opportunities

All our job vacancies are listed with the Plymouth City Council jobs website where you can find full job descriptions and application details.

Reimagining the Film Archives opportunities

As part of our current project 'Reimagining the Film Archives', we are opening archives to researchers to discover more about the films in the collection formerly held by the South West Film and Television Archive. The opportunities below will help to form part of our journey of decolonisation at The Box. The process will help us to discover and share stories in the film collection of diverse narratives that reflect the many communities in the South West and our connections across the globe.

Call for research

Led by researchers with diverse lived experience, The Box would like to look at one of two areas; the use of language in film archives (cataloguing, labels, descriptions etc) and/or the barriers that people from diverse backgrounds face in accessing the collections. This opportunity has been made possible with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery (The BFI Screen Heritage Fund Resilience Awards)

Deadline for applications: 15 September 2024
Interviews: by end of September 2024
There is a total fee of £4000.
The successful applicant will be expected to present their findings to a public forum in Spring 2025.

Emerging Artist/Filmmaker Brief

A unique opportunity for an artist/filmmaker to research and explore how regional life and attitudes have changed over the years, providing a fresh view into the archive that would speak to relevant and important issues of our society. With access to the biggest regional film and television archive in the country and insights and support from The Box team, the successful commission should address issues of ‘Power and Class: their impact on society and what the film archive collections tell us about them’. The commission has been supported by the British Film Institute (BFI) with additional support from Plymouth City Council.

Deadline for applications: 15 September 2024
Interviews: by end of October 2024
The total value of the commission is £1,500 to cover production of the work and the artist’s fee.
Final work to be produced, ready for public presentation by January 2025.

Artist/Filmmaker Brief

The Box is pleased to announce a new series of digital commissions for 2024. The two commissions have been supported by the British Film Institue (BFI) and Arts Council England funding, with additional support from Plymouth City Council.

We are inviting artists/filmmakers to make a contemporary response to one of the two separate themes that will be reflected in our forthcoming exhibition programme - ‘Surrealism’ and ‘Folklore and Mythology’.

The two commissions will enable us to help shape the narrative around our collections, stories and objects, through digital outputs, that will be displayed in The Box in 2025.

Deadline for applications: 30 September 2024
Interviews: October 2024
The total value of each commission is £6,000 to cover production of the work and the artist’s fee.
Final artwork to be produced, ready for public presentation by March 2025.