Back on the Radio with Yaz at Ujima

Back on the Radio with Yaz at Ujima

We were lucky enough to be invited back to speak to Yaz on Women’s Outlook with Yaz!

If you missed us on Wednesday 29th January 2020 - worry not! You can listen again right here (we are on from 1:33 onwards, but the whole show is worth a listen!) Hear us chat about our current project The Red Dress Kirstie Macleod, and our work in 2019 for North Devon Moving Image CIC, and Off The Record (Bristol) for Lgbtq + history month: Freedom. (Well... technically we don't talk about the work with Off The Record (Bristol) directly, but it's definitely worth a look...)

Shout outs to Landworkers' Alliance, Dee Butterly, Henry Allison, Liv James, Down Farm, The Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon, and Yaz for her great conversation which took us from working with emergence, the history of embroidery, what collaborative working means for us, International Women's Day 2020, and our pending crowdfunder set to launch on February 12th! ✊

Women’s Outlook on Ujima.

BAIT

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Ujima!

Ujima!

If you missed us on Ujima Radio 98fm last month - worry not! Click the link below and find us in the first half an hour of the Women's Outlook show on Wednesday 26th June (but we'd recommend listening on for the rest of the show too). Big shout outs to people we've worked with and admire: Viki Browne, Many Minds, In Our Hands, Landworkers' Alliance, Sims Hill Shared Harvest, Save Hamilton House and Kim Loginotto.

Massive thanks to Yaz Brien for inviting us on - officially Black Bark Films favourite radio show host. ✊🎙

Talking film, storytelling and putting ourselves in front of the camera.

Talking film, storytelling and putting ourselves in front of the camera.

In June we were invited by the lovely folk at St Werburgh’s City Farm in Bristol to give a talk about filmmaking. A huge thanks to Kat and the farm for inviting us, to those who came and shared their own stories and questions, and to the great work of the farm in general. You can see a film we made for the farm a couple of years ago below.

We’re happy to say our filmmaking has come on leaps and bounds since then and it was a real honour to be able to talk openly and honestly about our own personal journeys with filmmaking and how it shapes our collaborative, sensitive approach to our work. The beautiful footage below is from the amazingly talented Florence Pellacani. And the still above is from Soul Media/St. Werbughs City Farm.


This Week I have mostly been watching: Merata - How my mum decolonised the screen

This Week I have mostly been watching: Merata - How my mum decolonised the screen

My best mate recommended that I watch this documentary. Although It feels quite traditional in the sense of storytelling style, the content is fascinating. To see a powerful young Maori woman working with the pakeha in the 80’s New Zealand filmmaking world is incendiary. This is a powerful story about the importance of hearing indigenous voices in our mainstream narratives. Decolonising the screen uses archival footage, former interviews with Merata interweaved with stories from her 5 children. It is a unique look at the struggle of the colonised, of the power of story telling and of the combination of the often misconstrued, but ultimately complimentary roles of mother, storyteller and revolutionary.

By Holly.