Archive fever: unlocking the storytelling potential of film archives. Workshop with Jeremy Deller

Archives for Education are running a free Zoom workshop at 12:00 today at the BFI Future Film Festival with Turner Prize-winning artist and filmmaker Jeremy Deller on the creative re-use of archive film: https://www.bfi.org.uk/future-film-festival/events/archive-fever-unlocking-storytelling-potential-film-archives

If you miss the workshop, it will be streaming on the BFI YouTube channel afterwards. You can follow the project @makefilmhistory to stay updated with forthcoming events.

'We've been delighted to hear so many of you are using archive material from the scheme with your students during the lockdown and are very keen to hear of further films you would like to see added to the collection, so please send us your suggestions. Our archive partners are happy to consider all requests and are committed to adding more films to the project as it develops.

We'd also love to see some of the films created using archive material from the scheme. The FOCAL Awards are now open for submissions and you may be interested in submitting student work in the Short Film category: https://focalintawards.com/awards-2020/2020-production-categories/ ' Best, Shane (Archives for Education).

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Jeremy Deller is great artist and filmmaker - more about his work at:

http://poool.co.uk/jeremy-deller

UCW is member of Archives for Education - 'The Archives for Education and Make Film History projects make available over 200 films from the BFI National Archive, BBC Archive, Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive, the Irish Film Institute and the London Community Video Archive for creative reuse by young filmmakers in schools, film training and higher education across the UK and Ireland.' More details at: https://www.archivesforeducation.com/ If you wish to use this speak with Rich or Ross.

Control Shift Network (CSN)

Control Shift

2 - 18 Oct 2020 - Hybrid edition

An exciting new arts programme coming to Bristol this Autumn

Three weeks of workshops, discussions, installations and screenings - online and across Bristol, UK - exploring ways to reframe and rethink our relationships with technology.

The Pervasive Media Studio is a partnership between Watershed, UWE Bristol and University of Bristol. Control Shift Network is a collective of artists, technologists and producers. In 2019 they produced ‘You Make the Rules’ - a day of workshops followed by an algo-rave performance, which was part of Processing Community Day (a global celebration of ‘art, code and diversity’ initiated by the Processing Foundation). Control Shift has developed from this event and follows in the same ethos, with a focus on accessibility and diverse engagement.

In the talk below curators Becca Rose, Martha King, and Rod Dickinson will discuss core ideas behind the event.

Indigeneity & Digital Entanglements

Programme of short films, Online + also showing at the Arnolfini 10-11th Oct, 12-17:00

The ruins of history offer a host of unresolved traces that imagine the global south as a site of prehistoric technologies. This programme of short-films offers counter evidence to the assumption that technology is a western construction. The films address the politics of technology in Africa, affirming the continent as an active agent in the production of technology through indigenous practices.

Films will be online throughout the Control Shift programme, and also screened at Arnolfini on 10-11 October 12-5pm.

Indigeneity & Digital Entanglements (curated by Russel Hlongwane) assembles critical voices and cinematic expressions from Africa. These films present a broa...

Find out more about Control Shift, and how to get involved at https://www.control-shift.network/ Control Shift is funded by Arts Council England, Knowle West Media Centre, Institute of Coding, and University of the West of England. And supported by Watershed, Furtherfield, Aksioma, We the Curious, Bristol City Council, and Processing Community Day.

FLATPACK FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - AT YOUR PLACE!

DATES: 1-17 MAY

VENUE: YOUR PLACE

You can’t keep a good Flatpack down… we are delighted to present a special online edition that will bring our acclaimed, BAFTA-qualifying short film competition direct to your home and completely free. Thanks to an amazing response from participating filmmakers and distributors - who in normal circumstances would expect to launch their films through cinema screenings - we are able to present a significant majority of the planned competition programme here on the Flatpack site. Expect the usual eclectic stew of animation, documentary and inventive weirdness, with a number of UK premieres in the mix. This User's Guide has some pointers on making the most of the programme.

There are seven prizes up for grabs, including a new screendance award, and we will of course need your help selecting the two audience award winners. Programmes will be launching here daily from 1 May, and you can also expect special virtual outings for quarterly animation gathering Overlap and PechaKucha Birmingham. Browse below for more details, and keep an eye on our blog and social media for updates. Although there will be no charge for accessing any of the programmes, if you are able to make a donation to Flatpack then please do consider it - your support will help to make future events possible.

Flatpack is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and the British Film Institute, and by Birmingham City University.

Theaster Gates - Sanctum - Bristol

This is well worth a look: http://sanctumbristol.com/
Until 6pm on Saturday 21st November, Sanctum hosts a continuous programme of sound over 552 hours, sustained by performers, musicians and bands in a temporary structure within the shell of Temple Church, Bristol. Sanctum is Theaster Gates' first public project in the UK, produced by Situations, as part of Bristol 2015 European Green Capital.

experimental media experiments

below is a few films that i made as experiments as part my experimental media. 

as part of my exspermental unit at uni i was shown some stuff simular to this for ideas on what i could do for my own work. So I used it as en exscuse to spend time in class making a crack as there something I like doing.

for part of my experimental unit at university i thought i would play around with some of the effects in final cut.

this is a shot little video that i made while back after being inspired by a kimdao video i watched. you can view the video that inspired me here https://youtu.be/RmilL6aaRUU