Small
Wonders Projects
Small Wonders is a flexible
professional development scheme that draws on Picture This’
creative, technical and networking resources. The scheme is open
to all filmmakers and artists based in the South West region and
actively encourages emerging filmmakers and artists to raise the
standard of their projects and to work together in production teams.
In 2002/3 some of the
projects that received in kind support were:
Lisa Thomas and Rachel Bowen: Wet
Lisa Thomas, a choreographer, and Rachel Bowen, a filmmaker, collaborated
to realise this two part project consisting of a 10 min dance film
and a single live dance event. The film was shot with four dancers
in a fountain in front of which the live event was also performed.
Bowen and Thomas combined the support from Picture This with funding
from South West Arts. The film received the Best Production Award
at the Dance on Screen Awards at The Place in London in 2002.
Tomas Leach: Toymaker
A 2 min film about a Toymaker who works at a block of wood. Slowly,
a wooden toy begins to emerge. In 2003 the film has been shown at
LUX Open, at FIKE Evora International Short Film Festival, Portugal,
where it won a prize for Best Supershort, and the International
Film Festival of Uruguay.
Esther May Campbell and Paul Galloway: Charley
Harry’s Wondrous Nothing
Esther May Campbell, a director, and Paul Galloway, an art director,
collaborated on this ambitious short film project shot on 16 mm.
Picture This assisted the production by brokering relationships
with Aardmans to provide a studio and provided editing facilities
as well as mentoring and creative advice.
The film was funded by the filmmakers and received in-kind support
from production houses in Bristol.
Charley Harry’s Wondrous Nothing is a portrait of
a memory, where the past is briefly present. Nestling in the sand
dunes and long grass is a dilapidated caravan, within which a young
boy’s ghost contemplates the stars and his relationship to
them. The wind blows and the sea laps at the shore as time is gently
eroded.
The film has been shown at Brief Encounters, Bristol, Raindance,
London, and Commonwealth Film Festival, Manchester among other places.
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