You Have To Let Go 58' 2024
Here's a poet who earns his living tuning and restoring pianos. An electronic device can guide the tuner or he can listen for the beat within a note. The scientist has forgotten the experience of the craftsman. This thoughtful man knows much and is keen to share it with his apprentices. First with Aly and then Aydin - a Kurdish lute player. There's joy in this craft. Pleasure in shared humour. Rolf Dragstra piano tuner and restorer - musician and poet.
Ardyn Griffin: Art + Class 31 minutes 2020
Ardyn Griffin has spent a long life teaching and painting. When she retired from teaching she turned to papier maché and so produces these beguiling pieces.
I Thought It Were Love 60'0" 2016
This hour-long documentary observes an East Midlands water bailiff with twin passions: The Ashby de la Zouche Canal and pike. He muses on fish and barges and our changing world as he talks to everyone he meets.
Gus Farnes - Sculptor 9' 33" 2019
Here's the coastal world of this young sculptor as he incorporates grass and organic matter into his bronzes...
and then watch the vigorous process of casting.
Eve Graham - Sculptor 5' 48" 2023
Here's humour and an acute observational skill. She says that she's had no training - so a natural.
Farewell to Earth 2'47" 2018
Farewell to Earth is a composition by Andrew Walpole. The accompanying film was shot in Suffolk during a winter's gale at high tide.
Sage Dance in Sir Robert Peel 3'07" 2015
A group of over-fifty-year-old dancers wanted to have a specific dance filmed and had thought of shooting it in a pub that was trading.
Artists & Makers 90" 2024
A group of some 40 artists working and living in Hackney combine twice a year to show and sell their work.
Credo 3' 51" 2019
Nonsuch Singers were recording their CD of 'Mass in Blue' and this was filmed as they did so.
Singing For The Brain - Hackney Group 9'28" 2016
Tony and his partner Serena Nuttall volunteer at this group that brings music and dance to people with a dementia diagnosis. After some months of volunteering they decided to make this film that celebrates the participants and their determination to carry on regardless.
I Was The Job 3'10" 2014
A choir sings a brilliant song written by Clair Chapwell. This was filmed while the choir recorded the song for a CD.