Enceindre "While the archaeologist digs into ancient silt, the astronaut leaves soft prints in the virgin lunar dust."—The Future Was Desert Part I, Sophia Al-Maria, 2016 "What must occur is a revelation."—Empty Metal, Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer, 2018 England’s northernmost town, Berwick-upon-Tweed. Quiet, peaceful, serene. A place best known as the setting for hundreds of years of border wars between England and Scotland—it has passed back-and-forth, finally settling in England in the 15th century—and its medieval radial defense wall, Elizabethan ramparts, and the country’s earliest barracks building. With a population of around 12,000 (plus frolicking grey seals and common dolphin visiting offshore from the North Sea), it is perhaps not where you would expect to find one of the U.K.’s most exciting events for film and artists moving image; step forward Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. There is clearly something in the soil on...
- 11/6/2018
- MUBI
“This film started from a place of anger, but as time has gone on I recognise that it’s perhaps fear; history is starting to look like a set, Europe a wanton cathedral of the past….a shit incinerator.” – from Callum Hill’s Crowtrap Once in a while a festival experience resembles a sort of fever dream. You arrive burning with emotions from rage to sadness to overwhelming angst that you live in a world where most people’s limitations of thought and deed are just not even remotely acceptable to you. In this case, I called at Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland County UK, […]...
- 10/17/2018
- by Pamela Cohn
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
“This film started from a place of anger, but as time has gone on I recognise that it’s perhaps fear; history is starting to look like a set, Europe a wanton cathedral of the past….a shit incinerator.” – from Callum Hill’s Crowtrap Once in a while a festival experience resembles a sort of fever dream. You arrive burning with emotions from rage to sadness to overwhelming angst that you live in a world where most people’s limitations of thought and deed are just not even remotely acceptable to you. In this case, I called at Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland County UK, […]...
- 10/17/2018
- by Pamela Cohn
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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