Hartismere School

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

Home Login

Vertigo video essay - cinematic influence

Explore...

Vertigo is not the last word in misogyny, but a feminist deconstruction of it

Under the Skin - Sound

House of Flying Daggers - Wuxia Romance

Under the Skin - featurette

Buster Keaton - Silent Film Era

Zhang Yimou - Visionary of China's past

Captain Fantastic editing

Quiz: How well do you remember Vertigo?

Shaun of the Dead - 'The Plan' montage

Superimposition in film

New...

IT, COMMUNICATIONS AND AUDIOVISUAL TECHNICIAN

Science Technician

The Wave - FULL REVISION

Summer 2026 Examinations

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Examination Arrangements: Summer 2026

Lead Science Technician

Parents collecting pupils from school

Discover...

Student Information ZEN Film Studies Examinations GCE Vertigo Hitchcock Captain Fantastic Pan's Labyrinth BFI The Guardian Yimou Rear Window Vacancies Computer Science Cinema GCSE Fallen Angels School Newsletters Mocks Screenplay American Cinema Assessment

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...