Devising Film Workshop

EVENT INFO

In this playful taster workshop, we’ll explore how memory can spark a movie making process. We start with a memory, and from this we reimagine it through performance and camera - shifting between gesture, sound and camera.

Rooted in the principles of devised theatre, this session invites you to discover new ways of creating without a script. You’ll explore how memory lives in the body, how it can be reproduced, distorted or reshaped, and how it might form the basis of a visual story.

What you need:
No experience necessary—just bring a memory, and a willingness to explore both in front of and behind the camera. This is an interactive session so you may want to bring along a phone, a camera or a laptop to work on during this session.

Topics you will cover:
You will film and edit your own piece of work - this could be on cameras, phones, shot in one take, or edited on a phone or laptop brought in - our expectation are not perfect films, or even finished ones! We're looking to give you a space to explore your ideas and provide you a framework to take into your filmmaking.

Get audience responces to your work, formulate what ideas you may want to take from this and develop further in your future filmmaking careers. This is about collaboration, not competition - about testing ideas, inspiring each other and celebrating the creative risks we’ve taken.

Who will run this workshop:
Your workshop facilitator Elizabeth Delahunt is an experimental artist focussed on directing and visual media, she explores the world’s interconnectedness through images. Embracing a candid, kinetic style informed by nature, body and documentary activism to capture unstaged moments. She believes in the importance of connecting people with their authentic stories.

Elizabeth said: "Devising Film is a newly formed workshop series, developed from my experience working with a range of experimental and collaborative theatre, film and charity-based companies. The methods we explore are drawn from physical theatre, devised performance, experimental sound and film practices - brought together and reshaped through my own creative process.

This isn’t a fixed method. It’s a living, growing approach that invites play, risk and re-imagining."