Film, Archive + Music Lab short photo story
I am extremely grateful to the British Council Bosnia and Herzegovina for nomination to participate in this year’s edition of FAMLAB. My collaboration with the British Council dates back to my participation in the Envision Sound workshop in Ukraine. Considering that I am one of the winners of the grant for contemporary film awarded by the British Council Ukraine and the National Alexander Dovzhenko Film Center, the British Council Bosnia and Herzegovina nominated me for the shortlist of participants in the FAMLAB IV workshop.
FAMLAB is a British Council initiative that started in 2016 and is now part of an ongoing program supporting performers, composers, filmmakers , and producers working in the artistic space where the two worlds of film and music converge. This edition included collaboration between the British Council’s Film and Music programme, the British Film Institute and Sheffield’s Sensoria festival of film and music. As part of Coventry UK City of Culture 2021, this fourth FAMLAB also joins forces to work in partnership with Coventry’s The Tin Music and Arts, and Deliaphonic – an annual celebration of the life and work of Coventry born electronica pioneer, Delia Derbyshire.
FAMLAB IV workshop took place from 28 February – 5 March 2022, bringing together 10 musicians for a week immersed in an exploration of the challenges and rich potential for collaborative film archive and music projects. This year’s cohort includes participants from the UK, Turkey, India, the Philippines, South Africa, and Bosnia & Herzegovina, and the workshop is a unique opportunity to share knowledge and expertise, with inspiring conversations, and new creative challenges.
Guest speakers at FAMLAB IV were Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Caroline Catz, Rubika Shah, Ed Gibbs, Connie Farr, Anthony Weeden, Tim Stevens, and Marta Salogni.
I will have special memories of conversations with dear colleagues, participants who are, each in their own way, special. It was a real pleasure to listen to and get to know their work (it was so diverse) and think about music and art and become part of the FAMLAB family with them at least for a while. Meet them and remember their names:
Corinne de San Jose (Manila, Philippines), Cristiana Ilie, Dani Kyengo O’Neil (South Africa), Dilan Balkay (UK), Hayat Selim (Egypt), Sonia Killmann (Belgium), Subhagata Singa – Rivu (India), and Kris Halpin (UK).
Archive movies with our music are shown live (including my music for Ever Been Had from 1917) in Coventry Cathedral, and you can watch them online at the link below (which is highly recommended!)
Enjoy!