A event on Tuesday 15th July. The event starts at 19:30.
'The Up of The Down' is a 21st Century myth co-created with over 40 people including the youth club in Dings Park, students from the nearby Screenology, plus residents and workers from around The Dings / St Phillips area of Bristol, England.
A 15 minute film screening in Jack's Lab new place (very local) + refreshments. Free to access.
'The Up of The Down' is constructed with black & white photos, sound recordings and original music. It tells a tale of The Up and The Down and their connections through epic expanses of time, space and place. A fictional, cosmic community-art-film that wonders about creation and destruction, dust and play and about strangers and settlements.
The film emerged from Esther May Campbell's and Chiz Williams's six month 'Common Ground’ residency in the Dings, Feeder Road, Gas Lane, Temple Meads and Silverthorne Lane. This low lying part of central Bristol used to be marshland and then 19th century industrial factories and workers housing developed. In more recent decades craftspeople, traders, salvage yards and all kinds of makers have come. Now vast developments, including student accommodation and educational establishments, are being built here. The work also involved one trip to Dunraven Bay in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.
Commissioned by Ginkgo Projects on behalf of Watkin Jones, the film is just one outcome of the residency, which also created spaces for art and play at the Safe 'Ouse, field recordings, creatures making workshops and stories from elders. The project was playful, intrepid and mischievous and made lots of room for mucking about and all kinds of meetings.
Made possible with the support of partners and collaborators including The Dings Community Association, Screenology, Buoys Buoys Buoys, Martin Parr Foundation and Jack's Lab who processed the analogue black & white photos taken by all those that picked up cameras.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
A 15 minute film screening in Jack's Lab new place (very local) + refreshments. Free to access.
'The Up of The Down' is constructed with black & white photos, sound recordings and original music. It tells a tale of The Up and The Down and their connections through epic expanses of time, space and place. A fictional, cosmic community-art-film that wonders about creation and destruction, dust and play and about strangers and settlements.
The film emerged from Esther May Campbell's and Chiz Williams's six month 'Common Ground’ residency in the Dings, Feeder Road, Gas Lane, Temple Meads and Silverthorne Lane. This low lying part of central Bristol used to be marshland and then 19th century industrial factories and workers housing developed. In more recent decades craftspeople, traders, salvage yards and all kinds of makers have come. Now vast developments, including student accommodation and educational establishments, are being built here. The work also involved one trip to Dunraven Bay in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.
Commissioned by Ginkgo Projects on behalf of Watkin Jones, the film is just one outcome of the residency, which also created spaces for art and play at the Safe 'Ouse, field recordings, creatures making workshops and stories from elders. The project was playful, intrepid and mischievous and made lots of room for mucking about and all kinds of meetings.
Made possible with the support of partners and collaborators including The Dings Community Association, Screenology, Buoys Buoys Buoys, Martin Parr Foundation and Jack's Lab who processed the analogue black & white photos taken by all those that picked up cameras.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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