Caribbean Food Journeys from there to here’
This food stories project collected recipes from Windrush people and filmed them cooking and sharing their food across the family generations and with friends.
The cooks also produced recipe cards so people of different cultures can cook and enjoy the food and research was undertaken into the history of some of the main ingredients used in the dishes.
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A WALK THROUGH HISTORY
Child of Empire is an animated VR documentary which puts you inside the shoes of a 7 year old child during the largest forced migration in human history, the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.
An interactive experience built for Oculus Quest, the film navigates sectarianism, colonialism and identity at a time of deep political crisis.
Throughout the experience, you are guided by a 7 year old child (The Child of Empire), whose story is a kaleidoscope of three real life witness recounts. The viewer, as an imaginary friend to the Child, witnesses key moments in the migration journey. You could be hiding from a violent mob in the backroom of a shop with Ishar Das Arora, a Punjabi farmer boy from Attock; accidentally glimpsing a truck piled with dead bodies when arriving in Pakistan with Zarina Akram, a Mohajir girl who fled her home in Delhi on the day of Eid, and rejoicing at the eventual independence of the subcontinent with Tarapada De in a refugee camp in Bengal.
Interspersed throughout the journey are historical flashbacks, built with archive content, which educate the viewer about this critical moment in history.
Child of Empire (01)
A TIMELESS JOURNEY IN NEW MEDIA
Interactivity is intended to ground the viewer into the story and to develop the bond between you and the Child. For instance, one of our witnesses, Ishar Das, fondly recalled playing a game called gilli danda as a child. At the beginning of the experience, we are invited to join him in a match, where he teases you to hit the gilli as far as you can. There are more subtle instances of interactivity populated interpreted throughout the scenes, such as throwing colour in a Holi festival.
Created by Anzu Sohi and Sparsh Ahuja
Art Director Stephen Stephenson
Written by Omi Zola
Produced by Saadia Gardezi & Sam Dalrymple
Music by Amira Gill & Vasundhara Gupta
Sound Design: Sashank Navaladi
Dialogue Processing & Sound Mix: Somatic (Somin Griffin-Dave)
Stand Up! (And Boogie) is about the joy of music and dance, but also about the importance of being yourself, whoever and wherever you are.
Say you’re a musician, or a dancer You love nothing more than playing some gorgeous tune or jumping your body in time with the beat. But then one day you have to stop singing and dancing, shut your instrument away in its case, take off your dance shoes and no longer do the thing you love any more. How would that feel? Surely all the notes and the moves that you couldn’t let out would build up and build up inside you until… BANG- they’d all burst out and you’d just have to stand up and boogie!
ANIMATION CREDITS
WRITER – Daniel Jamieson
DIRECTOR – Nikki Sved
ANIMATOR – Luke Hagan
SOUND DESIGNER – Somatic (Somin Griffin-Dave)
ILLUSTRATIONS – Trina Bramman
PERFORMANCE CREDITS
STORY CONCEPT AND DRAMATURGY – Daniel Jamieson
DIRECTOR – Nikki Sved
DESIGNER – Andrea Pacheco
PERFORMER – Chloe Thurlow
PERFORMER – Marco Mazza
PERFORMER – Alexandra Wollacott
PERFORMER – Harry Napier
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR – Jane Mason
MUSICAL DIRECTOR – Thomas Johnson
PRODUCTION MANAGER – Rachael Duthie
COSTUME MAKER AND SUPERVISOR – Aly Fielden
"How many times have we been here before? We go around in circles. We think we have gotten so far and then we look back and realise that we are back to where we started. We are back round again. So when you see me, what do you see?"
The Elephant in the Room isn’t a story about a ship, or a journey to another land. This is a story about today and 6 characters who are still experiencing the impact of our colonial history, in cities that have only just begun to speak about their complex past.
Throughout the film, these characters are met with denial, reluctance, avoidance, ignorance and ultimately silence, as they figure out how to be seen and heard in a system that was never built for them.
Co-directed by Alix Harris and Jules Laville
Written by Alix Harris
Movement Director Jules Laville
Dramaturgy Lucy Coren
Producer Helen Bovey for Beyond Face CIC
Performed by (in order of appearance)
Victoria Horan - Humanity
Charice Bardwaj - The Voice of Freedom
Alix Harris - Freedom
Shaday Barrowes-Bayewunmi - Future
Performers continued
Samater Ahmed- Democracy
Shiquerra Robertson- Justice
Corinne Walker- Visibility
Richard Bailey- The Voice
Film made and edited by Daniel Martin
Costume Design by Meier Williams
Sound Design by Somatic/Somin Griffin-Dave
Production Manager Tessa Gaukroger
Movement. Sound. Nature.
Captured on film, Fragile Times is a realisation of the fragility of life, physically and mentally, during the unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic. This poem, written in the process, sets the mood:
Crinkle cut
The leaves bask in the late afternoon sun
The overhead chorale of birds
A reminder of how bustling life is
The world is slowing down
Or is it?
Who chooses the pace?
If we are still but for our whirring mind Are we really still?
Still enough to wholly listen
Do we gain a chance to reassess?
To consciously choose our own speed Our own frequency in the intricate web Has the whole web changed?
Is this the moment where a new web will be spun?
Created, Producer, Filmed & Danced - Amalia Fahle-Clouts
Assistant - Eva Fahle-Clouts
Sound Design, Composition, Production & Mix - Somatic (Somin Griffin-Dave)
Piano, Guitar & Field recordings - Rufus Baker-Morris
Created in 2019, this piece is an exploration of the physical shapes created when light from two laser projectors interact with smoke.
Entitled and centred around the concept of 'Pressure' in its multitude of forms, it's also particularly a response to my emotional and mental state at the time.
This was initially intended as an installation piece for audience members to walk through. Please also understand that as this piece was created in a blacked out environment and using low light the camera struggles to pick up the detail and depth of the light and the shapes.
Medium: 2x Laser projectors, Smoke machine, haze machine, Strobe, LED par can and audio. All visuals, audio, programming, filming and editing by Somatic in 2019.
Directed, Produced, Filmed and Created - Isild le Bisco
Original Music -
Benjamin Brooker
Elijah [Monrroe] Symons
Jonathan Gregory
Jamie Walford
ADR -
Jamie Walford
Somin [Somatic] Griffin-Dave
Dubbing Mix and additional Sound Editing
Somin [Somatic] Griffin-Dave
Release - ARTE TV 2019
Beyond envy and desire, the will is there, nestled deep within us, only asking to be manifested. What exactly is she? In this "carte blanche", actress and filmmaker Isild Le Besco shows the will in several forms: that of creating, of doing, of making or of loving.
