working with archive film
MediaActive’s Adventures with Archives programme champions the creative and community use of archive film, and film archives in the Midlands. Not surprisingly, we were keen to connect to, and draw on this local expertise.
Activity included: artists and community group training sessions, in how to work creatively with archive film Live Cinema events, featuring poetry, music and song, performed alongside screenings of archive films Creative writing and spoken word, using archive film to inspire new writing and performance.
Activity included: artists and community group training sessions, in how to work creatively with archive film Live Cinema events, featuring poetry, music and song, performed alongside screenings of archive films Creative writing and spoken word, using archive film to inspire new writing and performance.
Aviatrix and Chorley Flat Iron Market
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Aviatrix
An original poem created and performed by Jean Atkin, inspired by rare archive footage of pioneering English aviator Amy Johnson gliding over the Shropshire Hills.
Watch Jean perform Aviatrix live - at MediaActive's Hidden Treasures live event - below...
Chorley Flat Iron Market
Jean performs her poem to a repurposed edit of scenes from the 1945 short film ‘We of the West Riding’, part of The British Council Film Collection.
An original poem created and performed by Jean Atkin, inspired by rare archive footage of pioneering English aviator Amy Johnson gliding over the Shropshire Hills.
Watch Jean perform Aviatrix live - at MediaActive's Hidden Treasures live event - below...
Chorley Flat Iron Market
Jean performs her poem to a repurposed edit of scenes from the 1945 short film ‘We of the West Riding’, part of The British Council Film Collection.
Jean performs her poem Aviatrix live
Love is All poetry session
A still from the short film made as part of Conversations with SAND, that used the 1990s US documentary “The Celluloid Closet” as a springboard for a discussion about on-screen representation of the LGBTQ+ community. Watch the film on the Conversations with SAND webpage