Being Rebecca María is a writer and filmmaker, formerly a theatre director and cabaret performer. She is Editor-in-Chief for Those Who Were Dancing, a publication about the anthropology of sound. Rebecca also founded The Rebel Choir, a roving choir that...
The Two Unseens The Two Unseens is a short experimental archival poetry film utilising footage of the first ever film recording of an astronomical event, a solar eclipse captured by magician Nevil Maskelyne in 1900. The original poem itself is an existential...
Driftline V by Laurence Campbell and Tom James Scott (Part five from a series of seven) Driftline (2022) is a poetic series of short films by Laurence Campbell and Tom James Scott. Shot on and around The Islands of Furness, the works exist somewhere between...
The habit of hanging artworks on my garden fence The giant Buddha sits crossed legged meditating on Time with his back to me. He’s taller than the black maple tree and the pagoda on the horizon. The image is reflected in the waters of Lake Mahor and todays...
The Stranger, our film poem for this month, comes from co-creators Jessamine O’Connor and Carmel Balfe. It explores being a migrant in Ireland and being an Irish migrant abroad. Jessamine O’Connor has lived in a train station in the rural west of...
Royal Charters in 1600 and 1660 established the East India Company and the Royal African Company and between them these two bodies probably wrought more misery and devastation in Asia and Africa than any other institutions. The East Indian Company went...
