Young Voices at the Bloomsbury Festival
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
Young Voices brings together young filmmakers, situated around Bloomsbury, with students on the Film Programming & Curating MA at Birkbeck, University of London. The programme, in its 4th edition with the Bloomsbury Festival, has run since 2018. Today’s screening includes work made between Autumn 2023 and Spring 2024 by undergraduate students of the Pittsburgh-London Film Programme, in collaboration with the Derek Jarman Lab at Birkbeck. Our young filmmakers, many of them visiting England for the first time, are exploring in their work what it means to experience a new country. For some, this has involved an interrogation of their status as outside observers: maintaining a connection to one’s community, and creatively exploring their identity within a new space. For others, it is just about the simple pleasures of discovering a new city. In the spirit of the Lumière brothers’ early works, students were also given three weeks to make a series of 50-second films inspired by the locales of Bloomsbury. These ‘Bloomsbury Fragments’ (2023-2024) have been interspersed throughout the programme, grounding the longer meditations within a concrete exploration of the physical space in which these films were conceived and produced.
The programme will be screened in its entirety, lasting approximately one hour, with a spoken introduction by one of our curators, Guy Deboo. Curated by MA Film Programming and Curating students Guy Deboo, Kelsey Keating, Crystal Marshall, Ben Nash, and Paul Salt.
Contact name:
Matthew Barrington