Part observation, part performance, and a collaboration between father and son, _Everything Lives_ looks at how Ken experiences time in the barns where he works; the time he spends playing, the time unique to painting or the time it takes to build a whole life. This short 16mm film is an intimate series of surfaces, sounds and events that together form their subject: the artist as father.
Shot on location at the Low Four studio in Manchester, this film features poet Stephen Watts reciting his poem _I AM A FILM_, a coda to _The Liberated Film Club_ by Stanley Schtinter. Accompanied by the filmmaker who films him in a way that merges his presence with the recitation, the process unfolds through the use of analog material, close-ups of his face and expressions, and the grain of hi...
Co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Herbert Read (1893-1968) was an influential art critic, poet and committed anarchist. In his 1943 essay, _To Hell with Culture_, Read laid out his ideas for a civilisation based on cooperation in which culture would no longer be a commodity, separated from society, but an integral part of everyday life. In this film, director Huw Wahl engages in...
Letter from a filmmaker to his daughter
Duration: 1h32_Letter from a filmmaker to his daughter_ is a playful, free and personal film in the form of a letter; a film interwoven with a thousand stories knit together with differing textures, a book of images where a filmmaker shows the images and the stories he wants to share.
Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, _Language of Birds_ explores the virtues of translation and the desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, the film observes in a curious and sensitive way the attempts made to establish a possible exchange.
Accompanied by several sound recorders, the musician Ida Toninato plays the baritone saxophone in reverberated places: the members of this musical and cinematographic group walk in sound, in space, in time. This film with few images and a lot of sounds shares these concrete and fantasized listening, from the ship's hold to the cathedral to a huge concrete building. The use of a quality listenin...
Part observation, part performance, and a collaboration between father and son, _Everything Lives_ looks at how Ken experiences time in the barns where he works; the time he spends playing, the time unique to painting or the time it takes to build a whole life. This short 16mm film is an intimate series of surfaces, sounds and events that together form their subject: the artist as father.
Shot on location at the Low Four studio in Manchester, this film features poet Stephen Watts reciting his poem _I AM A FILM_, a coda to _The Liberated Film Club_ by Stanley Schtinter. Accompanied by the filmmaker who films him in a way that merges his presence with the recitation, the process unfolds through the use of analog material, close-ups of his face and expressions, and the grain of hi...
Co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Herbert Read (1893-1968) was an influential art critic, poet and committed anarchist. In his 1943 essay, _To Hell with Culture_, Read laid out his ideas for a civilisation based on cooperation in which culture would no longer be a commodity, separated from society, but an integral part of everyday life. In this film, director Huw Wahl engages in...
Letter from a filmmaker to his daughter
Duration: 1h32_Letter from a filmmaker to his daughter_ is a playful, free and personal film in the form of a letter; a film interwoven with a thousand stories knit together with differing textures, a book of images where a filmmaker shows the images and the stories he wants to share.
Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, _Language of Birds_ explores the virtues of translation and the desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, the film observes in a curious and sensitive way the attempts made to establish a possible exchange.
Accompanied by several sound recorders, the musician Ida Toninato plays the baritone saxophone in reverberated places: the members of this musical and cinematographic group walk in sound, in space, in time. This film with few images and a lot of sounds shares these concrete and fantasized listening, from the ship's hold to the cathedral to a huge concrete building. The use of a quality listenin...