Research collaboration

I'm really loooking forward to meeting the young people involved in our university research collaboration tomorrow.
Below are some of the videos I've picked out to get them thinking about how our own film should look and communicate to people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgX9SMwpNDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuFIyYKsmos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m-iepxgceo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhX2gzxjhdM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B37oVxw8CZ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnTYFeZNLkQ

Trailer for Chelsea's Choice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAo8Yly8rFk

The Invisible Child:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DupcFNoeV5s

Thanks to all who attended the Suffrage Stories event last night, what a great audience you were! Photos will follow shortly and I will be adding more info on the event and especially the performance involving projections of brilliant women inspired by the suffragettes 'A Pageant of Great Women'. This is my take on an updated version of the pageant and is a work in progress, involving research and practice around filling out history with the achievements of women. The list of women featured in the projection is:

Learned women

Germaine Greer

Rosalind Franklin

Joan Riviere 

Concepcion Arenal

Temple Grandin

Artists

Frida Kahlo

Jane Campion

Tina Fey

Jean Rhys

Josephine Baker

Louisa May Alcott

Claire Denis

Coco Chanel

Meryl Streep

Missy Eliot

Nina Simone

Delia Derbyshire

Francesca Woodman

Anna May Wong

Scientists

Dr Grace Murray Hopper

Dr. Shirley Jackson

Stephanie Kwolek

Mary Anderson 

Marie Curie

Margaret E Knight

Ada Lovelace

Marie Van Brittan Brown

Heroines

Gloria Steinem

Dorothy Pitman Hughes

Corrie ten Boom

Jackie Pullinger

Gladys Aylward

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Cathy Freeman

Irena Sendler

Molly Brown

Leaders

Betty Boothroyd

Hillary Clinton

Aung San Suu Kyi

Phoolan Devi

Clara Campoamor

Indira Gandhi

Warriors

Rosa Parks

Emmeline Pankhurst

Malala Yousafzai

Ford sewing machinists

Ronda Rousey

Maria Pita

Madres de Plaza de Mayo

Dolores Huerta 

Some quick research into any of these women is an inspiring experience and it has most definitely been one of the most motivating, eye-opening and exciting pieces of research I have ever done. It was so joyous to spend hours uncovering these amazing women from history and discovering the breadth and scope of their achievements.

Thanks to all who suggested women to include and set me on this wonderful journey of discovery.

A few shots of our rehearsal in the Stockport air raid shelters for the upcoming exhibition Blackout.
www.blackoutexhibition.tumblr.com
Our piece is called Underground and is a live performance installation with Kelly Diver and Jennifer Jordan O'Neill. Performances will be on opening night Wednesday 24th September from 5-7 and Saturday 27th September from 1-3. The exhibition runs all week and is full of other artists' fantastic work.

Snake Ropes

In December 2012, I began production for a short film 'Snake Ropes'. It was designed to be a trailer for a book of the same name, published by Sceptre, which explains the mysterious nature of the film. The idea was to draw people in and make them wonder what this book was all about. The link to the film is here:
https://vimeo.com/62557683
and here are a few of my favourite stills:

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MA Film; some more images

The film I made for my MA course is a documentary, which includes some dramatised scenes within it. I've already posted some images of the drama scenes and behind the scenes footage, so I thought I'd include some of the archive photos and other images from the film in this post. There are suffragettes, a playbill we reproduced based on authentic materials from the time, a still from the film, and the last two pictures are Cicely Hamilton and Edith Craig, two of the most well known female theatre practioners of the era. Enjoy!