Some great talks and events in this year's free online BFI Future Film Festival, including Jeremy Deller workshop about creative use of archives and Will Hooper discussing the collaborative process of making Dua Lipa’s visual mixtape, Future Nostalgia, in lockdown on Saturday.
Also check out today’s session on a ‘How to be a successful freelancer in the screen industries’
Check out full programme at:
https://www.bfi.org.uk/future-film-festival/free-industry-events-programme-date
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.
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'
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 :)
Tenaya Steed, will be joining us for Guest Seminar on Friday 22nd January 2021 - 11am. Tenaya will be talking through the process of making her debut short film ‘Desert Town Landings’ for BBC, working with production company ‘ Calling The Shots as part of BBC’s New Creatives Programme.
http://www.tenayasteed.com/talks#/wsa/ Password: wsa
This seminar was on Zoom. Click here to watch recording
‘I am an artist and writer interested in folk art, youth culture, and everyday lives. I’m proud to have been commissioned by the likes of The British Council, BBC Arts, Action For Refugees in Lewisham, Gloucester Culture Trust, and The Watershed to work with people and communities in finding and telling unique stories in overlooked places.’
‘Desert Town Landings’
’In a South West ‘culture desert’, an unseen stranger reports on mysterious objects seen flying over town. Spied through curtains, tops of hills, train bridges: football fans rejoice through the docks, gospel music plays from the worst street in town, kebab heart-to-hearts between drunk friends. UFO invasions or untold hoaxes.’
"Desert Town Landings", the short film I worked on over the summer, with Director Tenaya Steed, was shown on BBC 4 - Monday 8th Feb at 10pm BBC4 as part of:
Creating a scene: BBC Introducing Arts - Actor, writer and producer Chizzy Akudolu presents a collection of dramatic short films from the best of new British film-makers. Reflecting modern Britain, subjects range from speed dating, the climate emergency and school friendships to spotting UFOs.
Programme link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s4q4
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/502291900
See Mood boards and pre-production at: http://www.tenayasteed.com/talks#/wsa/ Password: wsa
Wed 23rd Dec 3:00pm
Peter Capaldi is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who (2013–2017) and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role of Tucker in the feature film In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Peter's extensive CV also includes Paddington, The Personal History of David Copperfield, The Hour and upcoming Suicide Squad.
Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his 1993 short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. He went on to write and direct the drama film Strictly Sinatra and directed two series of the sitcom Getting On.
Peter Capaldi also closes Stone Foundation’s 2020 album, ‘Is Love Enough’, with a spoken word meditation written by Vincent van Gogh on the subject of love :) !
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