See our interactive, Lumieresque map of Bloomsbury: https://earth.google.com/web/data=MicKJQojCiExM2NTdTdCam9ERHp5VUNhTlRweHozTXFJM2NTYnI2eFY The project is open to everyone and we collect entries until further notice. See below. A SUBMISSION FORM The aim of this project, ‘Notes from Bloomsbury: 50 seconds later’, is to produce an interactive film map of the Bloomsbury area, as part of an ongoing collaboration between the Derek…
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We are thrilled to be crowdfunding for a short, non-profit, moving-image art film, based on an unpublished essay by the British-Mexican Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), titled ‘Inside the Cauldron’. Carrington was born into a wealthy family of textile manufacturers in Lancashire, England. After being expelled from two convent schools, she attended finishing schools in…
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Silence Heard Loud is a film directed by Warsaw-based filmmaker and artist Anna Konik in collaboration with Birkbeck’s Compass Project. In the film we meet seven individuals from six countries who journeyed to the UK in search of safety—fleeing from war, terrorism, ethnic hatred, persecution, and domestic violence. But the issues now facing Angela, Janahan, Merwa, Michael,…
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Rites Undone is a short documentary film about Nigerian victims of sex-trafficking in Italy. It investigates the psychological methods of control used by sex-traffickers and explores the challenges faced by European mental health workers trying to provide treatment across cultural and religious divides. It is a collaboration between Naomi Richman, a junior research fellow in…
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In January 1972, John Berger and Mike Dibb’s seminal television series Ways of Seeing aired on BBC Two. In contrast to other art history series of the time, it criticised traditional Western cultural aesthetics, interrogating European oil painting, advertising, photography, and the genre of the nude. It aimed to demystify art and democratise scholarly ideas…
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From September 2021, the Derek Jarman Lab will be offering short placement opportunities to PhD students. The placement will allow students to develop new practical and research skills, and facilitate new means of furthering public engagement with their academic research. By the end of the course, students will have created their own research-based film, communicating…
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Conceal/Reveal is the Derek Jarman Lab’s pop-up festival of lockdown essay films for Birkbeck Arts Weeks 2021, which showcases essayistic works made in a year in which most creative activity reverted to the pre-social stage of human endeavour. Confined to solitary, yet technologically enhanced urban caves, filmmakers have been forced to work within constraints dictated…
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This post is from Lily Ford, a historian and producer at the Derek Jarman Lab. Find out more about her research at lilyfordresearch.com. Filmmaking became a particularly solitary experience during lockdown. I had the task of making a documentary about a woman who had spent most of her life on another continent, engaged in a…
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This feature is from Fiona Candlin, Professor of Museology at Birkbeck, University of London. Fiona’s last book, ‘Micromuseology’, was an analysis of small independent museums and included a chapter on the Bakelite Museum, which is the subject of the film featured here. She is the principal investigator on a large scale research project called ‘Mapping…
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This feature is from Robyn Jakeman, a producer at the Derek Jarman Lab. It first appeared as a ‘scrapbook’ feature in May 2020, for Birkbeck Arts Weeks. Keywords In 1948, when Raymond Williams was working as a teacher in adult education after studying at the University of Cambridge, T. S. Eliot’s Notes Towards the Definition…
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