BEV celebrates & supports international women filmmakers. The flagship BEV Film Festival runs at London's BFI Southbank and ICA, with exclusive previews, shorts, retrospectives, training and cutting-edge live performances.
We caught up with Dr Barbara Lippe (known as Babsi), Art Director & Consultant of Papermint, a fascinating indie games company, who have created an all-new animated virtual world which combines advanced casual gaming and social networking. Babsi and Chief Technical Officer, Claudia will be hosting a live game development session at the festival on Saturday 6th March as part of Birds Eye View Film Festival 2010′s Innovation strand.Read the full story
Sally Potter: the First British Female Director to Have a Full Career Retrospective at the BFI
At the end of Orlando, Sally Potter’s celebrated adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando (Tilda Swinton) finds herself in The Present. She revisits the Great House in which she grew up as a young (male) Tudor courtier and which she lost when she changed sex to female in the eighteenth century. The house is now a National Trust property and Orlando, suited and booted in androgynous chocolate brown biking leathers, is surrounded by Japanese tourists as she regards a portrait of herself as a young man. Read the full story
Wednesday I bagged a ticket for The Imaginarium, that had sold out. I was last in, with the remaining seat conveniently in the front row, in easy dancing reach of all the panellists and the very capable (and entertaining) event host James Mullighan, from one of BEV’s festival partners – Shooting People.
My easy heckling position meaning I had a good view of the guests presenting their intriguing dance motion capture film project – filmmakers Bert and Bertie, Centroid, and English National Ballet. But for some reason the sound didn’t pick up too well on video, so I grabbed duo Bert and Bertie in the bar straight afterwards for a quick twirl of their hats, and a snappy digest of how they had found presenting their work to a captivated audience.
On Tuesday my hosting skills (and general knowledge/experience/enthusiasm for the digital advertising world) were called upon, to welcome the filmmakers and introduce for the She Says: Meet the Advertisers event.
But beforehand I wanted to get in on the action at Connecting Voices: Films from the Commonwealth and arrived at the ICA just in time to meet the two filmmakers who had travelled all the way from India and Trinidad & Tobago – Leena Manimekalai and Camille Selvon Abrahams (respectively) – for the screening of their films. They were both super lovely and an exciting highlight was meeting Camille’s friend and filmmaker Horace Ové, who holds the Guinness World Record for the first Black British film-maker to direct a feature-length film Pressure.
e-merge is an interactive exploration of landscape through walking, music, artist’s moving image and mobile technology, and will be available to experience throughout most of the festival (for days and times please see the event page here). We asked Jackie to explain a little bit more about her project and what we might expect…
