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This practice-based project will use moving image, performance and installation to examine how the use of new media, emerging technologies and insights from behavioural psychology, might impact justice in the courtroom. As the popularity of legal dramas and the True Crime genre continues, there is evidence that juror expectations are being guided by film and television, and lawyers are adjusting their presentation styles accordingly. This project will combine staged and documentary techniques to examine the increasingly complex feedback loop between screen-based fiction and the law. It will consider how a moving image response that co-opts the audiovisual tools used during trials can develop our understanding of contemporary multi-media courtroom storytelling practices.