I spent two weeks volunteering in Rincón del Mar, Colombia, after discovering the opportunity through Workaway. I was hosted by Dania and Carmen from the Fundación Dos Aguas. During my stay, I worked with them to produce a short film about their innovative educational programme, TitaNext. The people were incredibly warm and generous, and the…
I chatted excitedly with my new companion Tilly about, art, travel and neurodiversity as we weaved through traffic, headed south from Bogota to Artesumapaz. Artesumapaz, near San Bernardo in the Cundinamarca region where the FARC guerrilla movement used to take their kidnap victims, who high up in the Sumapaz Paramo could see their home city,…
The bells were clanging and the barriers closing as we swerved out of the way of the queuing traffic. The foot brake had stopped working! I grabbed at the handbrake, coming to a stop in the soft sandy roadside. I jumped out of the Land Rover ambulance and headed into the forest shouting through the…
www.thewindups.co.uk The Wind Ups are a collective of Gramophone DJs. We spin authentic shellac 78 rpm records on clockwork wind-up His Masters Voice gramophone turntables with modern Technics 1210 tone arms, creating a beautiful sound. Dancers We can also bring along the Wind-Up dance troupe to perform with us and teach you how to dance the Charleston!…
This unique project combined historic and contemporary documentary film, visual arts, collaborative web-based technologies and grassroots community action. The goal was to preserve and share rare film footage from Brixton in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s; with the aim to bring this footage to life in today’s communities and provide a platform for people to…
The ProjectMutiny Arts recorded interviews with Sam and William, discussing how the demolition of the church affected the community. Pilot Film – Jesus SavesWe telecined (transferred from film to digital video) standard 8 film footage shot around Brixton in the 1970s. The footage revealed the story of the Pentecostal Church which was demolished in Brixton…
Arts Council DYCP and Platform B I led a project in collaboration with Audio Active and Platform B Radio to explore music-based immersive content and VR music production tools. Pre-COVID efforts focused on testing ideas and creating immersive experiences with VR headsets. Post-COVID, the project adapted by using Mozilla Hubs for virtual meetings, creating a…
This 30-minute documentary explores the lasting impact of Django Reinhardt’s music, moving between the festivals at Liberchies in Belgium, Django’s birthplace, and at Samois-sur-Seine in northern France where he died. The passion for preserving Django’s music and the nomadic culture it originated from is juxtaposed with the transformation of the modern Samois festival to encompass…
The film followsBernard Fevre, who had previously resigned himself to believing his seminal work would remain unnoticed, never receiving recognition for his early contributions to the genre. Thirty years after its release and on the eve of his retirement, one of the Rephlex DJs discovered his groundbreaking limited-release album, ‘The Black Devil Disco Club’, while…
A short profile of “London Isn’t Venice Yet” a play performed in London to raise awareness of Global Warming. Watch this brightly clad troupe of masked Venetians travelling along the river Thames and London canal network looking for a new home after floods have engulfed Venice. Alighting from their boat, accompanied by an accordion and…