Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag

See also...

Buster Keaton - Silent Film Era

Expressionism

Realism

Explore...

Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism

Editing Captain Fantastic

Nick Broomfield interview

Shaun of the Dead - 'The Plan' montage

Do the Right Thing - Screenshot podcast

Is Vertigo the best or worst movie ever?

House of Flying Daggers - sound

Why Are Wong Kar-Wei Films so Dreamy?

How to Talk Experimental Film: A User's Guide

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

New...

Paddington The Musical Savoy Theatre, London Thursday, 15 April 2027. Years 7 & 8

Early Help and Family Help

Parents Evening :: Year 8

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

School Policies

Stranger Things, The First Shadow. The Phoenix Theatre, Friday 11th September.

We teach LAMDA

Operation Mincemeat. Fortune Theatre, London Tuesday, 22 September. Years 9 to 13

Discover...

ZEN Film Studies Examinations GCE Buster Keaton Silent Film Revision Wellbeing Films Statutory Information Drama Vertigo Forms Coursework Cinematography Captain Fantastic Pan's Labyrinth Documentary Evening Year 12 Carol House Of Flying Daggers Avant-Garde

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...