Northcott Artist Lucy Bell is to create new film about resilience across the generations called Grown Ups and based on interviews
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Ripples / Adam Savva on beautiful words and subtle power
Filmmaker Adam Savva teamed up with spoken word artist Paul Gialo to create the visual poem Ripples, a delicate, subtle and powerful film
Jarman Award shortlist with interweb events announced
Jarman Awards usually embark on an engaging national-wide tour. This year that goes online but that doesn’t diminish the films in the running
Theatre Royal Plymouth joins Covid-19 Time Capsule project
Theatre Royal Plymouth’s Young Company joins worldwide Covid-19 Time Capsule project to record teenagers during the coronavirus pandemic
From books to the big screen: Successful screen adaptations
According to recent data, the book market in the UK increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2018, showing considerable growth in the sector. Last years book sales accounted for a total market value of £1.63bn – a £34m increase on the figures for 2017 – and with book sales expected to exceed this number […]
Have a pint – or two – in these pubs from the films!
If you like a tipple the how about putting on your bucket list a pint of the black stuff (or whatever your tipple is!) in these pubs from the movies (put together by Flogas, who supply LPG bottles and cylinders to pubs around the UK):
Exhibition premiere of Larry Achiampong and David Blandy’s film trilogy Finding Fanon at Plymouth Arts Centre
‘How we negotiate the histories we inherit and the futures we create’: Larry Achiampong and David Blandy’s film trilogy Finding Fanon at Plymouth Arts Centre
America’s love affair with Impressionism in new documentary The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism is a new documentary narrated by Gillian Anderson about the intertwining stories of American Impressionism and The Garden Movement
John Akomfrah’s River Tamar Project Tropikos commission acquired by Arts Council Collection
John Akomfrah’s film Tropikos, which explores the darker histories of the River Tamar and was commissed as part of Plymouth’s River Tamar Project has been acquired by the Arts Council Collection
Up, up and away! Don’t try this at home!
You get the feeling that you really shouldn’t try this at home. It’s a bit like Up! but without the cantankerous old fella, just a bunch of young men with too much time on their hands… and too many balloons to hand!
Explore Swedishness
Explore Swedishness at Olof Håkansson Swedish School, from the Rekorderlig Cider people
The latest arthouse cinema at home with Curzon on Demand
Top arthouse and indie cinema chain Curzon has launched Curzon on Demand which brings top arthouse movies straight to your computer.
Orange, films and the BAFTAs – the stuff that dreams are made of
It’s movie awards season, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards – that’s BAFTAs to you – is a celebration of the best of the year’s movies.
Edwina Ashton’s new film launched at her Out with the Hammers exhibition at the Exeter Phoenix during Animated Exeter
Edwina Ashton’s new film was commissioned by the Exeter Phoenix and Animated Exeter and will be part of her exhibition at the Exeter Phoenix Gallery – it features, among other things, eccentricity, isolation and insects
Arts research in the Faculty of Arts at University of Plymouth
Artist film-maker and doctoral researcher Kayla Parker interviews herself and Dr Roberta Mock, Professor of Performance Studies, about arts research in the Faculty of Arts at University of Plymouth