RORY PIlgrim | DOC SHORT

Nominated for the 2023 Turner Prize, artist and composer Rory Pilgrim meets with the eight members of Green Shoes Arts to explore the process of connection in different ways. From digital to embodied, verbal to musical, Rory's practice is underpinned by a concern as to how we might collectively contribute to social change. Commissioned by the Tate.

NOW I AM A BOAT | ARTIST FILM | clip

14 children from year six at Shirehampton Primary School spent a week working with artist Rachael Clerke & Bristol Photo Festival, thinking and playing around the subjects of shipping and globalisation. They visited the nearby Port of Bristol at Avonmouth & Portbury, created ship and port alter-egos, and invented a global shipping game where they transported grain, cars, crockery and more around the world (gym hall). 

BRISTOL PHOTO FEStIVAL | PROMO

The world never stands still, it is always in the process of unfolding and becoming otherwise. Any given moment can be understood as a momentary congregation; of bodies, matters, histories, dreams and ideas. Legacy film commissioned by I C Visual Lab of their international photography festival shaped by the movements of the city.

MANY MINDS, HYBRIDS | INFO SHORT

Mental health theatre company Many Minds and their recent interactive performance inspired by the These Mad Hybrids exhibition at the RWA, alongside artists Buoys Buoys Buoys and exhibition curator Olivia Bax.

MOSES MCKENZIE | PROMO

Working with Headline Publishers and Bristol author Moses McKenzie, creating a promo for his 2nd novel "Fast by the Horns" centred around the Rastafari community on the cusp of 1980's St. Paul's uprising.

knowing by heart | ARTIST FILM

Collaboration between movement artist Kit Hall and the women of Avonmouth Community Centre. Weaving living movement portraits to remember each of the women’s individual expressions and repeated movements during life and work in Avonmouth, as a celebration of their lives. The work is commissioned by IC Visual Lab in collaboration with Bristol Photo Festival.

DANCING OTHERWISE | DOCUMENTATION

Promo showing practical explorations that formed part of the Dancing Otherwise: Exploring Pluriversal Practices project. A two day event for individuals and groups to experiment with movement and improvised dance.

sile na gig | experimental short

Six artists congregate at the site of a ruined church. Here resides an enigmatic presence: goddess of winter, creator of landscapes, the divine hag Síle na Gig. Síle Na Gig is a short documentary directed, filmed and edited by Jo Barker.

Screened at: Homegrown Shorts at Curzon Cinema, Clevedon (2024), BlueScreen at the Cube Microplex Bristol (2023)

a spectacle of herself: creative captioning | R&D doc

Documenting Dr. Laura Murphy’s exploration into mental health, queerness and rage alongside self driving cars and the 21st Century Space Race, A Spectacle of Herself; Creative Captioning will adventure through shape shifting identities and landscapes. With layers of autobiography, lip sync, creative captioning, video and aerial performance in Laura’s critical and cheeky signature style

epic fail with kid carpet | promo

Short doc on the collaboration between Common Wealth Theatre company and musician Kid Carpet. Documenting the co-creation of a performance piece, centring around the idea of children experiencing that it’s ok to try something new and fail.

Period Drama | Experimental Doc | clip

A deep dive into chronic anxiety through a personal feminist lens, via slasher flicks, bloody knickers & suicidal insects. A BSL integrated show for public space performed by Olga Kaleta & Sherrie Eugene-Hart, Period Drama is a surreal, episodic and site responsive performance exploring mental health, identity & recovery through autobiographical storytelling, circus & physical theatre.

Official selection for CineSisters SouthWest Film Festival (2023), The Circus International Film Festival (2022).

Think Global: Act avonmouth | exhibition film

Short clip from a Bristol City Council commission, for the M-Shed’s exhibition Think Global: Act Bristol. Exploring big environmental questions affecting people in Avonmouth and presenting perspectives from a wide range of local voices.

a spectacle of herself | experimental R&d doc | clip

Artist and performer Dr. Laura Murphy charts a cosmic voyage through performance, probing into space and outer space, and taking up space - on your screens and in your lives. A Spectacle of Herself is a performance film emerging from research into a new live work, interrogating themes around virtuosity, autobiography, identity, and the spectacularized body.

Official selection: Belfast Film Festival 2023, The Circus International Film Festival (2022), MA Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague as part of Common(ing) Thread project, Stroud Film Festival 2022.

Hamilton House: Owning Our Future | DOC SHORT

Working with the Save Hamilton House Campaign, we put together this film about community ownership and the opportunities that could arise out of the sale of iconic Hamilton House in Bristol's Stokes Croft. 

dry season | r&d doc

Dry Season is a spoken word theatre performance exploring menopause and identity by artist and Bristol Poet Laureate 2022-24 Kat Lyons. Dry Season takes the audience on an autobiographical journey through a chaotic year of hormones, mental health issues and NHS visits. Intimate, honest and darkly humourous, Kat uses spoken word theatre to explore societal expectations of age and gender, our need for connection, and how we cope with change.

algobabez | short doc | clip

Some of the best livecoders from around the UK came to Bristol for a night of electronic dance music, livecoded modular synthesisers, and algorithmic music installation. Why are women so prevalent in this community? Meet the Algobabez, women at the forefront of the algorave phenomenon.

THE RED SEA TRAVEL AGENCY| PROMO

A co-creation between Black Bark Films and No More Taboo, the Red Sea Travel Agency is the first gender inclusive, dedicated menstruation venue to be held at a Shambala Music Festival. Themed as a travel agency we take people on a "weekend tour of the monthlies".