The 100 Year Old Band performs at The Wellspring Healthy Living Centre in Barton Hill on Friday June 15th and Arnolfini on Saturday June 16th 2012.

26 and 7 bones – a contemporary arts project in West Dorset in collaboration with artist Sally Watkins. Working along the Jurassic seaboard, we are meeting and collaborating with people who use their hands (27 bones) and/or feet (26 bones) to work, navigate or investigate the Dorset coast.

Through walking, research, conversation, skill exchange and both a physical and metaphorical approach to engaging with the landscape, the project articulates the conjunctions and exchanges between the physical body and the landscape – the ‘and’ of the hand.

A public event with visual, sound and live work is on the 26th & 27th May at the Salt House, West Bay in Dorset, as part of Earth Festival 2012

“A believer in helping; a learning disability person of standing. His last project was for better information about cancer. He raised money to make this film but never saw it finished. Despite his disabilities, don’t underestimate David’s understanding of the choices he had left.”

Funded by Glastonbury Mencap + Somerset NHS Partnership Foundation Trust

Using a thermal imaging camera and working with Transition Town Taunton to produce 6 short films exploring our relationship to energy.

a biggerhouse film production for Transition Town Taunton and The Brewhouse March 2012

Working Pete Snelling and over 80 students from Chiltern Trinity School in Bridgwater to produce positive content and media to be showed continuously on on 7 plasma screens accross the new campus.

A Somerset Film Production

Jesse recently edited our film academy production of In My Book

website coming soon

writer / director

Working with members of the Bridgwater Senior Citizen’s forum to generate original creative content for three days of live radio produced by and for older people and the wider community of all ages.

They will be broadcasting live from The Engine Room on 87.9FM and online at www.somersetfilm.com on 14/15/16 March 2012.

produced by Bridgwater Senior Citizen’s forum with Somerset Film at the Engine Room

“A believer in helping; a learning disability person of standing. His last project was for better information about cancer. He raised money to make this film but never saw it finished. Despite his disabilities, don’t underestimate David’s understanding of the choices he had left.”

Funded by Glastonbury Mencap + Somerset NHS Partnership Foundation Trust

2 films for the DotComUnity website. An online Disability Directory, for activities, events and services in the SW

see films

2 films for the DotComUnity website. An online Disability Directory, for activities, events and services in the SW

see films

Mark sits on the outside. He sees everything but never takes part . . .

“It’s all in here. In my book. If something happens, I write it down. What I hear, what I see, and what they say. I take my book with me all the time. It’s full of bits of people”.

. . . but a secret from the past will finally make him connect to the present.

Funded by: Somerset County Council Network For Social Change Lankelly Chase Foundation & South West Screen

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film 2011.

producer / director / editor

Moving On (Relationships & Sexuality training DVD)

5 real life stories about relationships and sexuality from people with a learning difficulty.

Michael wants a girlfriend but is stuck in the grey zone. 

Phil and Ali are moving in together. 

Jo has never talked about it, since it happened. 

Anton says it’s just a label. 

Dan thinks they’re ready but Sue is not so sure.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film 2008.

Mark sits on the outside. He sees everything but never takes part . . .

“It’s all in here. In my book. If something happens, I write it down. What I hear, what I see, and what they say. I take my book with me all the time. It’s full of bits of people.”

. . . but a secret from the past will finally make him connect to the present.

Funded by: Somerset County Council Network For Social Change Lankelly Chase Foundation & South West Screen

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film 2011.

A short video of the making of the Garden of Reason contemporary arts programme at Ham House, Richmond, April – September 2012.  The commissioned video is being shown in the resource room at the exhibition, and as an online resource.

An artist’s residency at the National Trust’s Mottisfont Abbey from December to February 2012.

Working through conversation and digital media with some of the staff and volunteers, I invited people to collaborate with me to explore ‘an action or task that you do, that perhaps no-one else knows you do, and that without it, something essential would be missed.’

Go here, for the playlist of short videos created from the residency.

One band, one song, one week: creating a band made up of people crossing the decades – from 6 years to 88 and upwards, from accomplished musicians from the city to the people we met on the streets of Kuopio, writing and performing one song for the Antiversary.

For details of the project, go here.  And for videos of the rehearsal and gig here.  And to listen to the song, go here!

We collected the thoughts and wishes of St Andrews Primary School, Acorn Day Care Centre as well as people on the streets of Littlemoor, and created audio work on the theme of hopes, dreams and wishes for broadcast on AIR internet radio in July 2011.  The project was commissioned by b-side as part of this year’s programme of work with young people in Weymouth and Portland.

Listen to the sound works here.  Photo by Pete Millson.

producer / director / editor

6 x films profiling the work of an independent Shared Lives scheme operating in the south west of England: delivering long term services, short breaks, day support and community based services.

A biggerhouse film production for Shared Lives SW

see films

6 x films profiling the work of an independent Shared Lives scheme operating in the south west of England: delivering long term services, short breaks, day support and community based services.

A biggerhouse film production for Shared Lives SW

see films

New work commissioned by Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre in Taunton for the Inna Space micro festival, May 2011.

Raiding the props and costume store at the Brewhouse, I filled the backstage Dressing Rooms with costumes and objects accumulated over years of productions staged at the theatre.  I invited visitors to dress up with me, to create extraordinary outfits of unexpected combinations.

Each costume collaboration ended with a photograph, and a momentary exposure to passersby, at the backstage door.

Two short videos as documentation: ‘Try this on …’ a collection of portraits of the costume encounters here, and for a video with some dancing too, go here.

Video work about human hands and animal contact (4’14 loop).  Exhibited as part of the Taunton Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre ‘England, my England’ Festival, April – May 2011.

Running Katie Etheridge’s ‘Faceback’ for a week during Battersea Arts Centre’s ‘One-on-one’ Festival April 2011.

Faceback is an antidote to online social networking that plays with ideas of
community, face to face contact, and control over our own images. Faceback sets in train a series of random one-on-one encounters over the course of an evening.

Somerset Art Works commission – March 2011

An intergenerational creative project continuing on from an earlier project all about art and place-making, working in collaboration with artist Simon Lee Dicker.  We invited the project participants (aged under 25 and over 50) on a free coach trip to see the Wonders of Weston and to use the day out together to reflect on the potential of Langport’s public space.  Inspired by the work of artist Tim Etchells in Weston we collectively created texts for the glass windows and doors of Langport in Somerset. Read more on the project blog here.  And here for my short video document about the project: ‘we went on a coach trip together’.

Around Here and Out There

For anyone living around Langport, artist Simon Lee Dicker and Sue are leading a Making Matters project for Somerset Artworks in March.  We’re offering a *free* day coach trip to Weston Super Mare on 5th March, because we’re going to see the Wonders of Weston – the new public artworks in the town – and and look out to Steepholme while eating the first ice cream of the season.  WOW all round.

The coach trip is part of an intergenerational creative project all about art and design in public spaces, and it’s part of a long term project around Langport Town Garden.  We’re inviting up to 30 people aged 25 and under, or aged 50 and over to be part of the adventure. So if you’re in the area and are interested in taking part, please email me for more info.

Go to the SAW website to download the flyer.

The documentation created from the No 1 Bus project – Joff Winterhart and Sue Palmer’s collaboration for the B-Side festival 2010 – is up on the web.

The first set is the The No 1 Bus Drawing Book, with drawings by Joff, text by Sue and a written contribution from Sally Watkins about our collaborative work on the No 1 bus.

The second set is a collection of ‘handover stills‘ of all the moments where Joff gave away his original drawings to the passengers and drivers.

For anyone who didn’t get to hear the single we wrote for the bus, with great assistance from Simon Roberts, it’s available here for listening and download.

And a short film I made about our time on the No 1 is up here.

Video made with 2BME an LGBT youth group based in Devises for the Stonewall “it gets better – today” campaign.

funded by Wiltshire Young People’s Opportunity Fund

a biggerhouse film production for 2BME

camera / editor

Moving On (Relationships & Sexuality training DVD)

5 real life stories about relationships and sexuality from people with a learning difficulty.

Michael wants a girlfriend but is stuck in the grey zone.

Phil and Ali are moving in together.

Jo has never talked about it, since it happened.

Anton says it’s just a label.

Dan thinks they’re ready but Sue is not so sure.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film 2008.

it was a great project to do, working in four care homes thoughout Somerset

The team I worked with was Sue Palmer

Joff Winterhart and Simon Roberts from the band Bucky.

James Price and Clare Cannon did camera whilst I did sound.

Will Bix from the Somerset Film helped too.

this hopefully spaces things etc

here is the DVD disk art

Working with lead artist Sue Palmer on part of a 5 day place-responsive digital arts workshop in Bridport with young people. Through public engagment, a site specific video projection work was produced for the windows of Bridport Arts Centre.

Commissioned by PVA MediaLab, Dorset

I love the tiger, and it would still eat me, yes.

This contemporary video-text performance looks closely at our relations with tigers, the ‘wild’, our desire to rescue and adopt, anthropomorphic corporate behaviour, zoos, fur and purr, our love.

more info

a performance project about psychic phenomena and our perceptions of time, space and thought.

performance | video | conversation

“the psychic is the space between namings” ned reiter

spring / summer 2004 in venues & locations in south west england

sue palmer in collaboration with vic llewellyn, lisa griffiths and stephen clarke

more info

A performance residency all about hair in GJs Hair Salon, Shepton Mallet, Somerset produced by Sue Palmer.

Hair Raising took place between the 20th-28th February 2001 as part of the Year of The Artist.

more info

We made 12 documentaries for netcasting during the spring and summer of ’99 which focussed on the town of Glastonbury, the arts and social change.

more info

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film 2009.

www.waragainstsleep.co.uk

they are very talented and have worked on numerous projects with us including Teeth – The Musical, No 1 Bus and

www.buckytheband.com

artist and maker

Her background is in Animation which has led her to work on a number of interesting and varied projects.

Her artwork has been featured in Elle Deco and Marie Claire magazines and she has worked in various guises on many music videos by award-winning Collision Films

www.madebylucy.com

Pete has worked as a writer on many of biggerhouse film projects including Best Interest and Film Academy.

www.mypockets.co.uk

A training and production partnership between Biggerhouse Film and Somerset Film in association with Somerset County Council and Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

High quality digital media co-produced by people with learning disabilities reaching audiences across the UK and beyond.

http://www.jumpcuts.org.uk

Somerset Film actively promotes the moving image in Somerset. Based at the engine room in Bridgwater, they are committed to making film and digital media resources and skills as accessible as possible across the county…

http://www.somersetfilm.com

Film Academy – a creative film making project for people with learning disabilities.

Film Academy is a long-term film making project that will enable groups of adults with learning difficulties to become empowered storytellers, filmmakers and actors.

Film Academy will build opportunities for students to take part equally in the culture of film.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film.

Commissioned by PVA MediaLab, Dorset

Lead artist for 5 day place-responsive digital arts workshop in Bridport with young people (14-19yrs), teaching and making animation, still and moving image work (with filmakers Joff Winterhart and Stephen Clarke). Through public engagement with residents and passersby in Bucky Doo Square, a site-specific video projection work was produced in collaboration with Stephen and project participants, for the windows of the Bridport Arts Centre: launched February 5th 2011.  Check BAC for the showing schedule.  Go here and look for the Outside In playlist for project documentation.

Working in collaboration with drawing artist Joff Winterhart on the No 1 Bus between Weymouth and Portland during the B-side multimedia festival, Dorset, September 2010.  Talking, drawing and songwriting with passengers and drivers during the festival: giving original drawings to public and keeping the carbon copies.  The ‘No 1 single’ was written especially for the bus inspired by our meetings and conversations (written and recorded in collaboration with musician Simon Roberts), and ‘released’ during B-side, with 50 limited edition CDs distributed and free download available.

Listen and download here.

Documentation includes “The No 1 Bus Drawing Book”, a collection of Joff’s drawings and Sue’s writing, and a series of photographs of the ‘handovers’ with the passengers and drivers.  An edited version of ‘The No 1 Bus Drawing Book’ was published in a limited edition of 40 in May 2011 by LabCulture.  Click here to see an 8 minute video short of the project and making process.

Commissioned by Somerset Art Works to collaborate with public artist Simon Lee Dicker to explore the art of place making in Langport, Somerset.

We engaged with public spaces in Langport through the themes of play and gardening, consulted with residents and community organisations and made creative interventions in Langport as part of Somerset Art Weeks Open Studios Event 71, October 2010).

The research and consultation is also for a prospective project in Langport Town Garden in 2011.

Working with Biggerhouse Productions, Tom Stubbs, Joff Winterhart and Simon Roberts making the NHS commissioned ‘Caring for Teeth’ DVD.  We worked in four care homes in Somerset with elderly people and care workers, conversing about life stories and singing about teeth.

For extract of the film, go here.

Paul makes the big mistake of letting his brother know he fancies Sam . . .

. . . who tells his dad, who tells his support worker, who tells his teacher . . .

They are all just trying to act in Paul’s ‘Best Interest’

But it doesn’t work like that . . .

Won ‘Best Overall Film’ award at the Oska Bright Festival 2011.

Won ‘Best Drama’ award at the Flash Forward Film Festival in Oxford 2010.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film 2009.

Guest contributor to the Ashden Directory, which focuses on green issues and the performing arts, writing a series of three pieces for their Flowers On Stage summer blog. Go to the site to read other contributions about flowers on stage.

One – The Daffodil - about Mary Southcott’s performance ‘Let’s get some weather in here’.

Two – The Lungwort – about Ruskin, flowers and a site performance in the Brantwood dining room

Three – Snake’s head fritillaries – about making site performance on the Dartington estate.

Teaching contemporary devised collaborative theatre, both studio and site-based practice at the internationally renowned Dartington College of Arts in Devon (relocated to Falmouth and merged with UCF July 2010).

- Lecturer across BA Undergraduate Programme: contemporary performance and theatre making, composition, collaborative and contextually driven practices, solo performance, physical theatre, site-specific and interdisciplinary practice.  I mentored and assessed third year graduating practical work, tutored students writing research papers and on contextual enquiry projects.  I gave lectures and presentations, pastoral care and learning support and taught portfolio/journal making and documentation.

- Module Coordinator for First Year devised theatre and site-based performance from 2004-10 (managing both independently and alongside permanent staff): course planning, management, organisation and administration of timetables and teaching schedules, hosting visiting lecturers, liaising with college administration, organisation and structuring of teaching materials and production workshops, creating and managing Learning Space content, marking and assessment and preparing work for external examination.

- Representative for Associate Theatre Lecturers and PTHP staff at Theatre Team meetings.  Participant and presenter at Department ‘Away Days’ for course review, planning and assessment (2006-2009).  Course writer for First Year site-based theatre programme for post-relocation to Falmouth.

Dartington’s approach to working with context and place was highly influential to many of the graduating artists and makers and to the international field of contemporary site performance practice. I worked alongside Phil Smith and Simon Persighetti (Wrights and Sites), Sally Watkins, Katie Etheridge and David Williams.

For David William’s document of the event and the performance text go to his blog here.

Commissioned by Taunton Deane Borough Council to look at way-finding in relation to routes along the River Tone and through Taunton town centre., and to create a coordinated approach to public art commissioning in the town through community and partnership consultation.

Working in collaboration with Diana Hatton (Public Art Advisor) and as mentor to placement artist Natalie Parsley, a diversity of people participated through interviews, conversation and image making projects. I collaborated with residents, shop keepers and organisations to make maps, photo and text works and videos as creative responses and interventions.

The project concluded with a symposium in March 2010 with councillors and representatives from the RDA, CABE, strategic town planners, the TDBC Public Art Panel and public organisations from Taunton which commended the research and the creative recommendation document written and produced by the RRR team.

Visit Natalie Parsley’s blog on the project here. To download the recommendation document and for more information, go to Somerset Culture website here and scroll down to end of Routes River Rail project.

Using packs of question cards alongside drawing and animation, the project brought together a diversity of people – elderly residents, teenagers and children – to dialogue, discuss, make and draw around the subject of mental health, well being and community.

In Princetown, short films and animations have been made as part of the project through collaborating with animator and drawing artist Joff Winterhart.  Go to the Soundings digital portraits and animations playlist here

Two sound programmes resulting from the conversations in Milton Abbot and Princetown were produced for broadcast radio.  Listen to “What we are made of” – the Princetown programme here.

The Princetown programme is currently part of the Forest Fringe Touring Sound Library.  For more information about Soundings go to the Soundings page at Aunehead Arts

Soundings was part of the Reach Devon, run by Aunehead Arts and Villages In Action.  The Reach initiative, a pilot programme running across the South West funded by the NHS and Arts Council England to explore new ways of working at the meeting point between art and health, won a Royal Society for Public Health Award in 2010.

Invited onto the steering committee for Made 2009 by Take Art, to bring new ideas into the biennial event for performance makers in Somerset. I introduced two new events to the platform: a Practice event showing new experimental work from across the UK, through collaboration with Dominic Somers and TheatreWorks, and a symposium to discuss new ways of making and producing performance work in Somerset, with speakers Emma Stenning, Executive Director of Bristol Old Vic and Sjoerd Wagenaar from PeerGroup in the Netherlands.

This web based artwork was commissioned as part of the Somerset Artworks / Neroche Scheme project ‘Revealing the Landscape’ on the Blackdown Hills on the Somerset-Devon border. The work explores migratory and transitory paths made by humans and non-humans across the Neroche landscape.

Working over the 11 months between January and November 2008, through walking and driving, encounter and conversation, I collected a diversity of materials and ideas which have been mapped into an interactive site: short videos, texts and images embedded into a click-and-drag map.  The website was programmed in Flash by web designers Magellan Projects.

Transience maps some of the migrations and movements of seeds, birds, earth, butterflies, people, weather, satellites, water, cars and moths. (Have the sound up on your computer before you follow the link)

www.nerochescheme.org/transience

A blog documenting the collecting process is here:www.suenerocheartwork.blogspot.com

All the videos from the work can be viewed here

Research paper presented:

‘Transience: oh bird, curious road, rush veneer’ at Living Landscapes, an international AHRC funded conference on performance, landscape and environment in Aberystwyth June 2009.

I love the tiger, and it would still eat me, yes.

This solo video-performance work looks closely at our relations with tigers, the ‘wild’, our desire to rescue and adopt, anthropomorphic corporate behaviour, our love. Thoughtfulness, humour and desire collaborate to imagine the tiger more alive than extinct, more fur-nomenal than digital.

Performed at (2005-08): Made In Somerset (Artists Showcase), Dartington College of Arts, Georgia State University Atlanta, Exeter Phoenix, Fareham Library Dads n Lads Group, The Phoenix Project in Glastonbury, Anti-Static Festival at the Brewhouse Taunton, Desire Lines Arts and Ecology Conference at DCA, Devon, Arts Depot London, Bristol Mayfest 2008 and Buckland Dinham near Frome.

Go to the project archive here.  To watch video excepts from the performance talk go to the video playlist here.

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A series of short videos, texts and animations around horses and women, girls and ponies and my 1960s toy farm. The work is inspired by and uses movie trailer soundtracks and gymkhanas.

Watch The Ponies & Gymkhana & My Jumping

Invited by visual artist Pam Longobardi to the Arts Faculty for presentations of performance both documented and live, discussion and sessions with students.

The residency was the beginning of a collaboration with Pam, resulting in the video installation “Murmuration – Aplexus/Starling” exhibited at the Air Quality and Climate Summit, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA May 3-4 2006.

Arts Council England funded performance project touring South West England, (March – July 2004) including Dartington College of Arts Gallery (work in progress), Cheltenham Festival of Science, Exeter Phoenix, Quest Mind Body Spirit Festival (Devon) and The Phoenix Project  (Somerset).

The project engaged performance, video, intensive research and conversation with audiences to explore psychic phenomena and the power of thought. Through the work, we undertook research and experimention into ‘psi’ with the internationally recognised parapsychologist Dr Serena Roney Dougal, and clairvoyant/artist Carolyn Findlay.

‘psi: mid space’ was made in collaboration with performance artists Vic Llewellyn, Lisa Griffiths and filmmaker Stephen Clarke. The archived project website holds much of the research gathered on psi and the ganzfeld, links to significant sources, quicktime movie clips and photo library.

Research papers presented:

‘On psi and performance’ at the International Conference of the Society of Psychical Research September 2004, Winchester UK.

“psi: mid space: the ganzfeld as source for performance” at Altered States: transformations of perception, place and performance, a transdisciplinary conference, The Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, July 2005

“psi:mid space” paper published in The Liquid Reader, The Plantery Collegium, Plymouth University 2005

A combined arts residency all about hair, in GJs Hair Salon, Shepton Mallet, Somerset: a devised site specific performance in collaboration with Vic Llewellyn performed over 10 day residency.  The subject of hair was intensively researched, from interviews with trichologists and biologists, to hairdressers and sufferers of hair traumas, producing a highly acclaimed event and documentation.  Audio documentary netcast from the Hair Raising website on hair trauma. Installations, story books and magazines architected into the salon.

Invited as key contributor to South West Arts YOTA assessment symposium. Project featured in the publication ’365 Year of the Artist in the South West’ and in New Theatre Quarterly (Cambridge University Press – May 2002).  Project archived here.

- Research project producing a random access real space/cyberspace documentation on PLATFORM – an interdisciplinary company (arts/ecology/ democracy) making place-specific work in London.

- Resident artist/maker for The Season of Shadows at WSI in Cumbria collaborating with WSI artists and Cambodian Shadow Puppeteer

http://www.ashdenizen.blogspot.com/2010/07/flowers-on-stage-lungwort_12.html

Glastonbury Net Radio: one of the first Internet Radio Stations in the UK using Real Player netcasting 15 original programmes from the site: documentaries, discussion, drama, new writing, with a specific commitment to the arts and social change. Over 100,000 listeners since Feb 99.

Productions included:

Afterlife: a 30 minute programme documenting radical thinking about life after death

Theatre, Politics and Social Change – Augusto Boal: a programme documenting the Artangel produced ‘Art of Legislation’ in London

Tracing the Map: a 45 minute audio documentary in 4 parts about the changing face of Glastonbury High Street from 1900 to 2000.

Listen to Tracing The Map here

or via Sound Cloud site here

Magdalene toured SW England to colleges, arts centres and festivals, including International Meeting of Solo Performance in Switzerland hosted by Teatro delle radici (92-95)

Visions of Hildegard – National tour, including a summer horse-drawn tour, as as a masked actor and shadow puppeteer with Horse and Bamboo Theatre of Rossendale, Lancs 1996

The Legend of the Creaking Floorboard – 7 month international tour with Horse and Bamboo Theatre working as a maker, lead masked actor, bunraku puppeteer and workshop leader 1997

The Quay Thing – a four month season of site-specific performance in Exeter with Wrights and Sites as a performer and collaborator 1998.

Residencies included:

- Directing final production of graduating theatre students in production of Garcia’s One Hundred Years of Solitude at SCAT in Somerset.
- Director and workshop leader of A Monkey’s Tale, a youth theatre production at Belmont Arts Centre in Telford.
- Co-Director of a series of 3 residencies with BTEC students at Strode College, Street.
- Visiting Lecturer to MA in Cultural Performance at Bristol University (2001/2)

International theatre exchange programme with Rustaveli Young Company of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia 1989-90.  Tour of ‘Birdman’ to Republic of Georgia 1989, and return tour by Rustaveli to UK with ‘The Stepmother’ 1990. British Council supported.

Somerset Soviet Youth Theatre Exchange 1989-90: Co-director and producer of first independent youth theatre exchange between UK and Russia.  23 young people aged 14-18 brought together to form a new Somerset Youth Theatre, then linked with the Bridge Youth Theatre from St Petersburg. The Russian and English groups devised a play together for public performances at the Hotel Leningrad 1989.  The Russian young people hosted in Somerset for a 2 week collaborative residency to devise a piece based on The Golem with public performances in Taunton and Glastonbury.

Performance Work 1982-87: Series of devised T.I.E and regional touring productions to schools, community arts centres and theatres, including: ‘Gi’us A Light’ (1983), ‘Ambitions’ by Phil Smith  (1984), ‘Pack Up Your Troubles’ (1984-85), ‘Into Africa’ (1986), ‘A Comin’ Home’ (1987).

“psi:mid space: the ganzfeld as source for performance” published in The Liquid Reader, The Plantery Collegium, Plymouth University (2005)

Paul makes the big mistake of letting his brother know he fancies Sam . . .

. . . who tells his dad, who tells his support worker, who tells his teacher . . .


They are all just trying to act in Paul’s ‘Best Interest’

But it doesn’t work like that . . .


Won ‘Best Overall Film’ award at the Oska Bright Festival 2011.

Won ‘Best Drama’ award at the Flash Forward Film Festival in Oxford 2010.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film 2009.

Film Academy – a creative film making project for people with learning disabilities.

Film Academy is a long-term film making project that will enable groups of adults with learning difficulties to become empowered storytellers, filmmakers and actors.

Film Academy will build opportunities for students to take part equally in the culture of film.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film.

One of eight films under the title “This Is Me!” made with students from the Getting A Life Project (Somerset Work Preparation Service – Yeovil, ROC in Totnes and South Devon College)

The films were made as creative portraits of where they are now and what they hope for in the future.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts.

One of eight films under the title “This Is Me!” made with students from the Getting A Life Project (Somerset Work Preparation Service – Yeovil, ROC in Totnes and South Devon College)

The films were made as creative portraits of where they are now and what they hope for in the future.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts.

Following three characters’ interweaving stories as they battle with issues arising from learning disability, mental illness and dementia.

Commissioned by Somerset County Council as a training resource to dramatise issues raised by the Mental Capacity Act to be used in staff training as a focus and discussion point.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film 2009.

A series of 8 films called “How Are You?” which tell deeply personal health related stories from adults with learning disabilities made as a training resource for health and social care practitioners.

Commissioned by Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and made at Fiveways Resource Centre, Yeovil.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts 2010

A series of 8 films called “How Are You?” which tell deeply personal health related stories from adults with learning disabilities made as a training resource for health and social care practitioners.

Commissioned by Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and made at Fiveways Resource Centre, Yeovil.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts 2010.

Tom Stubbs was bought in by Innovations in Dementia to work and collaborate with the participants to create their films.

But these films are not just about dementia.

They are about people living their lives positively, with vitality and creativity.

They are about people who are still learning, and still growing.

They show that dementia is life-changing, but not life-ending.

A biggerhouse film production for Innovations In Dementia 2009

A 13 minute animated musical about oral hygiene made with learning disabled students and produced for NHS Somerset.

Fred runs away from the dentist because his teeth start singing to him. “Attention, Attention, this is your teeth, talking to you from your mouth!” In this epic musical journey, Fred meets Mr Toothpaste and Mr Toothbrush and learns everything there is to know about teeth and the entire subject of Dental Hygiene.

The film has won the Education Business Award For 2010 – Somerset County Council. The Patron’s Prize at the National Oral Health Promotion Group conference 2010 and the ‘Best Education Award’ at the Picture This Film Festival in Canada.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film.

A 13 minute animated musical about oral hygiene made with learning disabled students and produced for NHS Somerset.

Fred runs away from the dentist because his teeth start singing to him. “Attention, Attention, this is your teeth, talking to you from your mouth!” In this epic musical journey, Fred meets Mr Toothpaste and Mr Toothbrush and learns everything there is to know about teeth and the entire subject of Dental Hygiene.

The film has won the Education Business Award For 2010 – Somerset County Council. The Patron’s Prize at the National Oral Health Promotion Group conference 2010 and the ‘Best Education Award’ at the Picture This Film Festival in Canada.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film.

In July 2009 biggerhouse film joins forces with somerset film to launch JUMPcuts a training and production partnership in association with Somerset County Council and Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

High quality digital media co-produced by people with learning disabilities reaching audiences across the UK and beyond.

Following three characters’ interweaving stories as they battle with issues arising from learning disability, mental illness and dementia.

Commissioned by Somerset County Council as a training resource to dramatise issues raised by the Mental Capacity Act to be used in staff training as a focus and discussion point.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film 2009.

One of a series of 21 films made with young people with learning disabilities in Somerset, Bristol and Cornwall as part of an arts consultancy for MENCAP.

A biggerhouse film production for MENCAP 2009

Introduction to the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safegaurds The British Institute of Learning Disability.

Four short films dramatising issues relating to the new Government Guidelines about Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Commissioned by British Institute of Learning Disability.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film 2009.

It is only last 10 minutes, it sounds like a nightmare but actually it is ok.

AWARDS:
Encounters Best of British-Made in the South West Audience Award 2009

Encounters Best of British-Made in the South West Jury Award 2009

TV Best Documentary Short at the 6th London Short film Festival 2009

A 20 drama about healthy eating made by a cast of learning disabled actors.

‘James needs to lose weight but he’s fed up with everyone having a go at him…. Jane wants to stop eating junk food but finds it too tempting… Jake wants to put weight on because he thinks he is too weedy…When will they all learn to ‘shape UP!’?

Commissioned by the Food Standards Agency and Somerset Learning Disability Services.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film 2008.

Working with 2BU, a group of young gay, lesbian + bisexual people in Somerset.

Mediabox/Young People’s Film Council film Supported by The Engine Room at Somerset Film and Video Ltd.

A 20 drama about healthy eating made by a cast of learning disabled actors.

‘James needs to lose weight but he’s fed up with everyone having a go at him…. Jane wants to stop eating junk food but finds it too tempting… Jake wants to put weight on because he thinks he is too weedy…When will they all learn to ‘shape UP!’?

Commissioned by the Food Standards Agency and Somerset Learning Disability Services.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film 2008.

live performance event produced by Sue Palmer

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creative documentary response to the Tor Dance Festival in Glastonbury

film maker: Laura Hylton

album cover design and video documentation for Jaki Whitren’s new album – ISIS UNVEILED due for release Spring 2007.

A 23 minute comic horror film about food hygiene made by a cast of learning disabled actors.

Jane lives on her own, and let’s face it, her flat is in a bit of a state. No wonder her friends won’t come round, let alone eat the food she makes. One day Jane cooks for Mike. He takes one look at it and escapes, leaving Jane to finish the food herself and to a night she will never forget . . .

Commissioned by the Food Standards Agency and Somerset Learning Disability Services. A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film 2006

Awards: S.W. Total Communication The Easy Language, FOODLINK Communicating Food Safety Award. Picture This film festival! Canada Education Award. Best Special Effects Oska Bright Festival.

directed by Stephen Clarke

a 23 minute film for Learning Disability Services Somerset and the Food Standards Authority.

produced by The Engine Room

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film makers: Stephen Clarke + Tom Stubbs

produced by Learning Disability Services, Somerset in association with the engine room

Camera – Tom Stubbs

produced by Learning Disability Services, Somerset in association with the engine room

10 days of creative film making for adults with learning difficulties

produced by Learning Disability Services, Somerset in association with the engine room

a 6 minute film animated entirely by 6/7 years about the reminiscences and story’s of ex-pupils.

facilitated by Tom Stubbs & Joff Winterhart

produced by Suited + Booted.

creative arts lab led by Sue Palmer

produced by Take Art

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interactive dvd made with 2BU a group of young gay, lesbian + bisexual people living in Somerset.

produced by the engine room in association with Government Office South West

A 20 minute mixture of live action and animation to encourage primary school pupils from the Blackdown Hills to eat healthy local food.

produced by the engine room

17 short films made with Carr-Gomm residents in Birmingham, Bristol, Aylesbury + Somerset.

produced by the engine room in association with Carr-Gomm, a social landlord & registered charity

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video for performance of Buchinger’s Boot at the PHOENIX

project in Glastonbury

“Four short films about things that are important to us!”

Made by a cast of learning disabled actors: the stories cover friendship, how to complain if you are unhappy, respite care and ways in which Social Services are there to help service users.

Commissioned by Somerset County Council.

A biggerhouse film production for JUMPcuts in association with Somerset Film.

17 short films made with Carr-Gomm Residents in Birmingham, Bristol, Aylesbury + Somerset

Produced by biggerhouse film for the engine room in association with Carr-Gomm, a Social Landlord + registered charity.

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2BU are a Somerset based gay, lesbian and bisexual young people’s support group. The framework for the film was a weekend residential trip ran by Stephen Clarke & Joff Winterhart in Dartmoor.

an engine room production

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a documentary about the support network charity KeyRing in Barton Hill Bristol. The 36 minute film follows all of the individuals, covering what they do and how they help each other.

filmmakers / facilitator

Made with the Crewkerne Ranger Guide, It won a Heritage Lottery Fund ‘Heritage Heroes’ award in the Children and Young People category 2006.

Working with 2BU, a group of young gay, lesbian + bisexual people. The video is about their lives growing up in Somerset.

A biggerhouse film production for the engine room.

live performance event produced by Sue Palmer

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a devised drama and documentary film that tells the storys of several teenagers who have survived cancer.

a Wolf + Water project

produced in association with the Brewhouse, Taunton and Halcon Community Primary School

A 6 episode epic about the Government’s Valuing People Paper, based loosely on 80’s TV show – The A Team.

directed by Peter Harris for Wolf + Water.

a short commission film about a teacher covering a sex education lesson.

made for Picture This, funded by South West Screen

Joff Winterhart and Tom Stubbs joined members of Wolf + Water, to work with 10 pupils from Rathbone Pupil Referral Unit, in Weston Super Mare. A 26 minute film was made in a week.

a Wolf + Water project

film makers: Stephen Clarke + Tom Stubbs

produced by somerset film + video and Somerset Adult Learning + Leisure.

video promoting ‘Widening Participation in Somerset’

produced by somerset film + video and Somerset Adult Learning + Leisure.

a 16 minute film by Lucy Bailey and Tom Stubbs made with the special needs art group Art + Power, it looks at the problems their members face when travelling through Bristol.

made for the Arnolfini, Bristol

a 10 week digital video production course

produced by somerset film + video.

a series of 10 day long workshops at the Phoenix Project, Glastonbury. 10 participants were guided through all the processes of becoming filmmakers.

an engine room project

a micro film project for artist Miranda July. Screened as part of the Commotion programme of live events for Arnolfini, Bristol.

a short film which tells the story of three people who are fed up, and want to complain, but don’t know how.

produced by Six Acres Resource Centre in association with somerset film + video.

a mixture of drama and documentary about parents and children’s perception of home. filmed in taunton.

a First Light film produced through a collaboration with Calling The Shots and Somerset Film + Video.

edited and composited by Tom Stubbs.

written and directed by Joff Winterhart, the film won a Bafta Cymru in 2003.

design and build of new media centre in Bridgwater

(released april 2006)

sound recordest on one of 10 crews

directed by Julian Temple.

a Social Inclusion In the Media Arts project with 20 young people, working with 5 film-makers and 5 actor-musicians to devise and produce their own 30 minute film.

produced by somerset film + video in association with Action Track Performance Company and Take Art!

Views of the the Somerset town of Wellington by members of Genesis Youth Theatre.

View of the the Somerset town of Wellington by members of Genesis Youth Theatre.

Produced by somerset film + video in association with First Light Films.

A Social Inclusion In the Media Arts project with 20 young people, working with 5 film-makers and 5 actor-musicians to devise and produce their own 30 minute film.

Produced by somerset film + video in association with Action Track Performance Company and Take Art!

video production course, Brewhouse, Taunton.

produced by the Brewhouse, Taunton in association with somerset film + video.

shot on super 16mm

over the summer of 2001 project facilitators Tom Stubbs and Joff Winterhart got 25 members of the local community, aged between 8 to 80, to make a one minute film

Promotional video ‘Boy Of Science’

Produced by Somerset Film + Video

Promotional interactive cd rom

guest film maker

Working with five MA students to produce a video intended to introduce the rich field of devised theatre and ways to approach working with it.

Shot during the international ‘Devising for Live Performance Festival’

produced for Dartington College of Arts

live performance by Sue Palmer + Vic llewellyn

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a HTV wales documentary about Peter Karrie, directed by Paul Bullock.

broadcast october 2000

a joint film project with Andrea Williams and Dave Daggers

A 12 minute documentary for ‘Figures In A Landscape’, a series produced for HTV West about a unique and extraordinary Glastonbury resident called Alison Collyer.

Produced by somerset film + video.

A new experimental arts space based in Glastonbury

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co-producer

12 documentaries for netcasting focusing on the town of Glastonbury, the arts and social change.

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a half hour documentary about little league football for BBC wales. Directed by Christopher Morris.

broadcast december 1999.

a portrait of Alison Collier. Directed by Stephen Clarke for HTV west, as part of their ‘figures in the landscape’ season. broadcast february 2000.

written and directed by Toby Miller and Tom Stubbs.

an animated public information film about diabetes for the Royal Gwent Hospital.

Metal phoenix installation for Glastonbury Millennium Celebrations

written and directed by Tom Stubbs

a 25 minute one man play about a teacher and his wife. Performed by Robert Chase as a script reading at Dempsey’s Bar cardiff.

documentary for the Ffotogallery/Ely special needs hospital. Detailed video research of 6 clients changing lives as the hospital closes.

Video covering the production of six new performance works, involving over thirty professional practitioners. Performances were created specifically for a number of sites on and around Exeter’s Quayside, including a large warehouse, the working boatyard, the former Municipal Power Station and the Medieval Exe Bridge.

Funded by The National Lottery Through The Arts Council of England, Exeter Arts Council & dB Sound and Lighting.

produced for wrights & sights

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Video documentation of four interweaving pilot performances created specifically for a boat journey between Exeter’s Quayside and the Double Locks pub on the canal.

Funded by The National Lottery Through The Arts Council of England, Exeter Arts Council & dB Sound and Lighting.

produced for wrights & sights

animation degree at UWCN. Duties involved; personal tutorials; technical demonstrations; overseeing of final year films and administration to help with the smooth running of the course.

won ‘best director’ at Yaraslovl Film Festival in Russia

produced by Angelcast Productions

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broadcast on Channel 4 / ZDF / Arte

won several awards and screened at numerous international festivals

St. Petersburg: October 1989. The Russian and English groups devised a play about the breaking down of a wall by people who want to communicate despite their cultural differences.

Somerset: April 1990. The Russians return for a further 2 week residency to devise a piece based on THE GOLEM for performances in Taunton and Glastonbury.

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The company became one of South West England’s leading companies specialising in new devised performance work for regional and national touring, theatre for young people, and International Cultural Exchange leading projects in the Cameroon, West Africa, St Petersburg and the Republic of Georgia.