Films
Friday 1 December - 12:00
Building 25, Main Room
'Not just a file' (18 mins)
- Rachel Morley & Milissa Deitz
Western Sydney University
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This collaborative film brings together academia, advocacy and lived experience to champion young people in foster care. It considers how Therapeutic Life Story Work, a biographical narrative methodology, supports this group to reclaim their identities through a process grounded in the willingness to have difficult, yet urgent conversations. Hannah's story, shared here, documents the challenges in accessing her story and the benefits once she learnt it through TLSW. It is an advocacy story for systems change.
Dr Rachel Morley, Western Sydney University
Dr Milissa Deitz, Western Sydney University
Recent associated publication: “Digital Lives: A Collaborative Investigation into Digital Opportunities for the Personal Narratives of Young People in Care”
'The 48 Symmetries' (20 mins)
- Tim Brook
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In Tim’s own words: “First I designed a short computer program in the Python language. The program processed every pixel in an image. It treated each pixel as a point in the RGB cube, and used a matrix to transform it. The program repeated this process for each of the 48 symmetries of the cube, producing 48 distinct images from one original image. Next, I arranged these images in a sequence I thought would result in smooth transitions. Finally, I used commercial software† to render this sequence as a digital video, connecting the images with long slow dissolves.”
For more info, stills and a game based on the video, go to: https://hingstonbrook.com/cube/
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Tim Brook is a multimedia artist. For one piece, he worked with a Reggae band; for another he worked with a Nigerian Rastafarian and four drummers. Usually he works alone or in collaboration with the composer Arne Hanna or the visual artist Ruth Hingston. He’s been making multimedia works for more than forty years, collaborating with composers, performers, choreographers, theatrical directors, visual artists and a poet.
Tim enjoys the excitement and the risks of collaboration. He appreciates the depth and richness that collaboration can bring to a work—there’s always something unexpected—and he also admits to one or two disasters