The Allerdale Film Farm is partnered with no.w.here and Hayton Castle Fields and organised by Julia Parks, Jameela Khan and James Holcombe.
no.w.here
Formed in 2004, no.w.here is a not for profit artist run organisation based in Tower Hamlets (London) that combines photochemical film production alongside critical dialogue about contemporary image making. As an artist-run platform no.w.here supports the production of artist works, runs multiple workshops and critical discussions, and actively curates performances, screenings, residencies, publications, events and exhibitions.
Visit No.w.here’s website: http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/
Hayton Castle Fields
Hayton Castle Fields is a new Community Interest Company (CIC) based at Hayton Castle in West Cumbria, just North of the Lake District National Park . The ten acres at Hayton Castle consist of woodland, orchards, gardens and pasture which we intend to enhance and preserve for the benefit of wildlife and local people. Hayton Castle Fields aims to engage, empower and support young people who have a passion for arts and environment and offer experiences for those who simply want to try something different, fun, inspiring, rewarding or therapeutic.
Visit Hayton Castle Fields website: http://www.haytoncastlefields.com/
Julia Parks
Julia grew up in West-Cumbria and studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London. After graduating in 2014, Julia moved back to Cumbria, to continue making films inspired by its landscape and community, she is committed to increasing local opportunities for people to be involved with contemporary film and art, which has lead to the creation of the Allerdale Film Farm.
Visit Julia’s website: http://juliaparks.co.uk/
James Holcolmbe
James works at no.w.here in Tower Hamlets, London. His work combines a deep material engagement with photochemical film and its scientific, social, and political histories and the chance outcomes inherent in expanded projection and improvisation across sound and image which often take the image to the verge of failure and back again. His work has been exhibited throughout the UK and Europe.
Visit James’s website: http://jamesholcombe.net/
Jameela Khan
Jameela Khan is an artist/interactive film maker (as well as molecular biologist), from Burnley, Lancashire. In addition to being a recent graduate of the National Film & Television School, with a Master’s in Games Design (funded by the Wellcome Trust), Jameela has worked with 16mm and 35mm film via projects at no.w.here, London. Jameela has showcased work at the V&A, 35mm Pop-up Cinema and various gaming expos, and has organised events at a community cinema in Deptford, including a spoken word event in commemoration of the death of Malcolm X.
Visit Jameela’s website: http://www.wobipo.com
Leah E Millar
Leah Millar is an artist based in London and Newcastle-Upon- Tyne. She
works in sculpture and moving image, with a particular interest in film and
photochemical experimentation. She is a member of filmlabs in Newcastle,
London and Paris and has recently completed a Masters Research programme
with LUX and Central Saint Martins looking at artist film as a product of
collaborative and collective practices. Residencies and commissions include
Stills Gallery (Edinburgh), no.w.here (London), Wellcome Trust, BFI and Kotti-
Shop (Berlin).
Find out more about Leah’s work:
Marcy Saude
Marcy Saude’s work involves subjects such as marginal histories, the
landscape, counterculture, radical politics and language, and has screened at
venues and festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam (The
Netherlands), Torino Film Festival (Italy), EMAF (European Media Art Festival,
Germany), Ann Arbor Film Festival (Michigan), Anthology Film Archives (NYC),
Other Cinema (San Francisco), the Echo Park Film Center (LA), and artist-run
labs and project spaces across Europe and the US. A member of the
Filmwerkplaats collective moving image lab in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as
well as BEEF in Bristol, UK, she received an MFA from the Department of Art
and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder and currently works in
Plymouth, UK.
Visit Marcy’s website: https://threecolorsallblack.wordpress.com
Martha Jurksaitis
Martha Jurksaitis is an all-analogue film artist based in Hebden
Bridge in West Yorkshire. Her Cherry Kino film lab is where she
alchemically works with super 8 and 16mm film. Her approach to film is
distinctly sensual, involving nature, intuition, a hands-on
relationship with film and an intention to bring expanded sensual
pleasure to people through her filmmaking.
Visit Martha’s website: http://www.cherrykino.com
Christo Wallers
Christo Wallers is an artist/community filmmaker, working in super 8, 16mm
and HDV. He makes experimental films of his own, while focusing a lot of energy
on community based media project, including film, video, audio, web design,
and visual and new media art. He is a co-founder of the Star and Shadow
Cinema, and a member of the Filmbee collective. Christo is programing a selection of films for the Film Farm.
Visit relevant sites for Christo Waller’s work:
https://www.starandshadow.org.uk
Jacqui Knight
Jacqui Knight MA is a Marie Curie (ITN) research fellow with the Cognition Institute, and contributing researcher with Transtechnology Research at Plymouth University. As a practicing artist and doctoral researcher she is concerned with the simultaneity of experiences as a ‘generative moment’ that brings an artefact into existence and results in the emergence of artistic forms. Her research uses artistic practice specifically photochemical photography and film as a tool to understand the conditions of these generative processes and their affective implications. She lectures across various institutions in the South West of England and is co-founder of artist film collective Cinestar, based in Cornwall, dedicated to supporting creative work with analogue film through experimental workshops, screening events and education. She has exhibited and curated numerous film screening events and group exhibitions throughout the UK and has had a solo show at Nancy Victor Gallery, London.
Visit relevant sites for Jacqui Knight’s work:
https://plymouth.academia.edu/JacquiKnight