Having reflected on the process of making Little Blue Man in the re-edits (2021), I offer here two additional films that explore source and stimulus from 1996 through 2011 and 2015. I offer here drawings from my notebook, photographs from family archives, photographic explorations in the landscape and an interview I did for radio on ‘My Sister, My Angel’. Having …
Little Blue Man: Gate Seven
It’s Father’s Day. This is my seventh post in honour of my dad’s 90th Year. We lost him when he was 78. It takes a long time to process losing a loved one. I have posted 7 short films in honour of his life taken from the work I did on ‘Little Blue Man’ – an homage to Dad. I …
Follow the Stone Part Four: Stopping Places – the aerodrome
Follow the Stone Part Four: Stopping Places – the aerodrome I became conscious in re-working Follow the Stone for a short film edit after Virtual Strata [1] that the piece represented the inner and outer world of Lockdown[2] for me. I think the strands for further development are in the film, and in the continuous working of the 8K walk …
Aspects of Physical Theatre – log book
Yesterday I began teaching Aspects of Physical Theatre at the University of Manchester. It is the second time teaching it there for me and I am applying what I learned from the first version two years ago. It is assessed partly through a log book so I thought I would have a go at doing my own log entry just …