Mia Macfarlane: Co-Creative Director and Co-Editor-In-Chief at IRK Magazine / Co-Photographer French Cowboy. Guest Seminar

Mia Macfarlane is the Co-Editor-in-Chief and Co-Creative Director of Paris-based IRK magazine, an international print and web publication focused on fashion, beauty, art, and culture. Mia inspires her readers and contributors to push their boundaries creatively and intellectually. Before IRK she spent three and a half years as the Creative Director of New York based culture magazine DOWNTOWN.

Mia will be joining us for a Guest Seminar.
Join Talk on Teams: 11.00 am Tuesday 20th April TODAY!!

As a sought-after art and fashion photographer, she also creates work with her partner Julien Crouigneau under their pseudonym French Cowboy. Utilizing the visual language of fashion imagery they have created and exhibited their fine art photographs across Europe.

They are opening a gallery for photography in 2021 in the legendary French city of Arles, known for its photography festival "Rencontre Arles" and the LUMA museum.

Guest Seminar - Sam Francis - Creative Producing, Curating

Sam Francis joined us for another guest seminar, this time focussing on working as a Creative Producer and Curator. Recording of session is on Teams, see links and notes from this session below. For notes from yesterday’s Experimental Media Arts workshop go to this page

‘I am a creative producer, maker and doer now living in Weston Super Mare after 15 years in Bristol. 

 I am interested in engaged, live work that is not bound by a singular art form, and am currently project producer for Outlands experimental music network, a member of Supernormal Festival and arts collective Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF). 

 I also create things and make stuff sometimes. I like to observe and experience things through sound, image and words; snippets and moments, as a way to connect with place, space and spirit. I like working collectively and collaboratively, building and being part of communities, connecting people and responding creatively to contexts.

I am a creative producer, maker and doer now living in Weston Super Mare after 15 years in Bristol. 

 I am interested in engaged, live work that is not bound by a singular art form, and am currently project producer for Outlands experimental music network, a member of Supernormal Festival and arts collective Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF). 

 I also create things and make stuff sometimes. I like to observe and experience things through sound, image and words; snippets and moments, as a way to connect with place, space and spirit. I like working collectively and collaboratively, building and being part of communities, connecting people and responding creatively to contexts.’

Sam Francis

Notes and Links from Session

Supernormal Festival

SUPERNORMAL is a three-day, experimental arts and music festival taking place at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire. It offers a platform for artists, performers and musicians to work collaboratively and creatively for a new kind of audience seeking experiences out of the mainstream. It is determinedly small and intimate with an audience of 1,500. It has been born from a place that values the currency of ideas and imagination, as well as the inclusivity of artists and audiences alike, rather than commercialism and profit. Read more

Trailer:

Short Film (2015) by James Hankins & Richard Edkins

BEEF - Bristol Experimental Expanded Film

Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF) is a film and sound collective supporting experimental practice in Bristol since 2015.

BEEF provides an independent platform and much needed resource for artists’ production, distribution and critical engagement, predominantly focusing on experimental and analogue practices. BEEF members collaborate and work together to organise a regular programme of events, screenings, performances, exhibitions, residencies, and film & sound workshops. Read More

Why you Shouldn't be an artist 

LINKS - Weston super Mare

Weston Artspace: a studio hub and workshop space for Weston’s creative community, on the High Street.
https://www.westonartspace.com/

Culture Weston: develop inspiring cultural initiatives and events
https://cultureweston.org.uk/

Creative Meet Ups for young and emerging artists and creatives. The next one is 13 April. Book here: https://cultureweston.org.uk/listings/creative-meet-up-emerging-artists-creatives/

There will be event volunteer opportunities, and specific student opportunities.
Keep an eye out on FACEBOOK: Culture Weston / Weston Artspace.

FURTHER INFO + LINKS:

•Curating Context – Beyond the Gallery and Into Other Fields, edited by Magdalena Malm, 2017

•What Does an Art Producer Do? by Grace Bordelon

•BFI Future Film Festival film industry festival for young, emerging filmmakers

•BFI Film Academy - opportunities for young creatives aged 16 to 25:

Further Viewing:

Day in the life of a film programmer

Curator talk: curating in context - making exhibitions work 

How to succeed as an artist

How to get your short screened at film festivals:

The fifth sense: making exhibitions 

See more of Sam Francis’s work at: https://samfrancisco.co.uk/



Guest Seminar - Rebekah Tolley Georgiou - Arts Lab International - Collaborative arts projects

Rebekah Tolley - will be joining us again for a guest seminar on Monday 25th January 2021. This seminar will be focussed on the Collaborative arts projects Rebekah does as Georgiou Tolley - https://www.artslabinternational.com/

Watch recording of Meeting on Teams here (you will need your student ws login)

ArtsLab international is a studio / laboratory, for collaborative art projects.

Founded in the UK by artists: Darryl Georgiou & Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou. 

Joining the Dots…
Georgiou & Tolley work across lens based media, technologies and platforms, to visualise and realise their ideas. ‘Joining the dots’ and gathering data, in an attempt to understand the past, and set a wider context for making new work in the here and now. Exploring the language of art, image sound and radio, often researching the hauntology of ‘how places feel’ (Genius loci).

More about Rebekah’s other work

From 2006-2010 Rebekah Tolley was an Executive Producer/Director for UK super indie TV production company, Tinopolis. Responsible for concept development, creative and production input on wide variety of video and interactive projects for clients such as the United Nations, BBC and Channel 4. As an independent producer, she has worked on a variety of projects for BAFTA LA, BAFTA UK, Five TV and Oxford University.

Rebekah’s professional photographic work has been featured in The Guardian, Observer Magazine, Radio Times, AG Photographic, The Magazine (Santa Fe’s magazine for the arts) Annual Best of World Photography edition 2005, Photography magazine, BAFTA Academy magazine and BAFTA Annual Report 2005-06.

Rebekah is a MA graduate in Design & Digital Media/Media Arts from Coventry University (one of the oldest digital arts courses in Europe) and of the EAVE European Producers programme for 2011.

Rebekah began working with the celebrated Documentary Film maker Michael Grigsby during the making of his documentary, Rehearsals, in 2005. They later went on to make 'We Went to War', which revisits the stories of David, Dennis and Lamar - veterans of Vietnam war 40 years after their return, when Michael first filmed them for the award winning film, 'I WAS A SOLDIER'

Visit: http://poool.co.uk/rebekah-tolley

Rebekah’s previous seminar, Thursday 10th December 2020, focussed on Documentary Film

UCW Film students can access the recording of the meeting and see links from seminar here (or via meeting in Teams Calendar).

Some notes and links to Films Rebekah shown/ spoke about:

Michael Grigsby - BFI Wiki IMDB.

The Stones in the Park

The Beatles - Live at The Cavern

​Enginemen (1959) - Watch Enginemen - on BFI Player. This poetic Free Cinema documentary, filmed near Manchester, reflects on the changing world of the engineman.

Rebekah spoke about Michael’s mentor Lindsay Anderson and ‘Free Cinema’. Read More about ‘Free Cinema’ on Poool

​Tomorrow's Saturday (1962)

I was a soldier (1970)

We went to War (2012) - Michael Grigsby and Rebekah Tolley

Some notes from Michael Grigsby said in video interview- "Rightly or wrongly, I am known for making films with people with 'no voice' “.
“I learned about: 'Shutting up', 'Letting people be' , ‘No interuption’, ‘having no agenda’, ‘Silence, space in between is important’, ‘listen to their world’.

​Other Films Rebekah spoke about:

Okhwan's Mission Impossible - The story of a man on a bicycle, overcoming the borders of continents and body to reunite Korea. Bicycle road movie about a man and his epic 10 year journey around the world.

Life in a day - Kevin MacDonald / Ridley Scott

​Other notes:

Rebekah: “Always remain curious, be passionate, give people a voice”

​Also spoke about Iranian cinema including Directors Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi , speaking about his ‘This is not a Film’

Use of sound in Films, ‘Listen to their world’, ‘Don't load your films with music’.

Rebekah will be back in 2021 :)

Guest Seminar - Rebekah Tolley Georgiou - Documentary Film

Rebekah Tolley - joined us for a Guest Seminar, 1.30pm - Thursday 10th December 2020

This seminar focussed on Documentary Film - aimed at Year 1 FdA Film but open to all year groups.
UCW Film students can access the recording of the meeting and see links from seminar here (or via meeting in Teams Calendar).

From 2006-2010 Rebekah Tolley was an Executive Producer/Director for UK super indie TV production company, Tinopolis. Responsible for concept development, creative and production input on wide variety of video and interactive projects for clients such as the United Nations, BBC and Channel 4. As an independent producer, she has worked on a variety of projects for BAFTA LA, BAFTA UK, Five TV and Oxford University.

Rebekah’s professional photographic work has been featured in The Guardian, Observer Magazine, Radio Times, AG Photographic, The Magazine (Santa Fe’s magazine for the arts) Annual Best of World Photography edition 2005, Photography magazine, BAFTA Academy magazine and BAFTA Annual Report 2005-06.

Rebekah is a MA graduate in Design & Digital Media/Media Arts from Coventry University (one of the oldest digital arts courses in Europe) and of the EAVE European Producers programme for 2011.

Rebekah began working with the celebrated Documentary Film maker Michael Grigsby during the making of his documentary, Rehearsals, in 2005. They later went on to make 'We Went to War', which revisits the stories of David, Dennis and Lamar - veterans of Vietnam war 40 years after their return, when Michael first filmed them for the award winning film, 'I WAS A SOLDIER'

Visit: http://poool.co.uk/rebekah-tolley

Some notes and links to Films Rebekah shown/ spoke about:

Michael Grigsby - BFI Wiki IMDB.

The Stones in the Park

The Beatles - Live at The Cavern

​Enginemen (1959) - Watch Enginemen - on BFI Player. This poetic Free Cinema documentary, filmed near Manchester, reflects on the changing world of the engineman.

Rebekah spoke about Michael’s mentor Lindsay Anderson and ‘Free Cinema’. Read More about ‘Free Cinema’ on Poool

​Tomorrow's Saturday (1962)

I was a soldier (1970)

We went to War (2012) - Michael Grigsby and Rebekah Tolley

Some notes from Michael Grigsby said in video interview- "Rightly or wrongly, I am known for making films with people with 'no voice' “.
“I learned about: 'Shutting up', 'Letting people be' , ‘No interuption’, ‘having no agenda’, ‘Silence, space in between is important’, ‘listen to their world’.

​Other Films Rebekah spoke about:

Okhwan's Mission Impossible - The story of a man on a bicycle, overcoming the borders of continents and body to reunite Korea. Bicycle road movie about a man and his epic 10 year journey around the world.

Life in a day - Kevin MacDonald / Ridley Scott

​Other notes:

Rebekah: “Always remain curious, be passionate, give people a voice”

​Also spoke about Iranian cinema including Directors Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi , speaking about his ‘This is not a Film’

Use of sound in Films, ‘Listen to their world’, ‘Don't load your films with music’.

Rebekah will be back in 2021 :)

Rebekah will be doing another session in New Year - aimed at Lens Based Media students - which will be more focussed on their Collaborative arts projects as Georgiou Tolley - https://www.artslabinternational.com/

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.