Derek Jarman Lab

11/10/2024

The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze has its German premiere today at https://www.dokumentale.de/ in Berlin. We are looking forward to the conversations! Screenings with Q&A on 11/10 and 12/10.

31/08/2024

‘A fractal, sensorial experience with a creative form, evocative score and overwhelming vision’: The Hexagonal Hive has its international premiere at Telluride today! Thanks for this perfect description from the festival team.

08/07/2024

One of our MA students Ayda made these fabulous drawings during a workshop last Saturday. Thank you, Ayda!

14/06/2024

Great to see our work featured in The Guardian this week.

What can a pipe-smoking caterpillar, a few algorithms and a researcher from the year 2042 tell us about the future of learning? The actor turned director explains all the ideas that fed into her thought-provoking new documentary

05/06/2024

Just released the trailer for our new film in advance of its world premiere Sheffield DocFest next week, watch and read more in
Deadline Hollywood

Watch the trailer for Tilda Swinton's feature directorial debut, the doc 'The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze,' co-directed by Bartek Dziados.

23/05/2024

Calling all storytellers and researchers. "Audio-visual practice as research" is open for enrolment. The upcoming course starts on 31st May. Book your place now!
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/courses/2023/short-courses/modules/ARAR/ARAR011N0/0/audio-visual-practice-as-research

12/05/2024

Delighted that our new film THE HEXAGONAL HIVE AND A MOUSE IN A MAZE will have its world premiere in the International Competition Sheffield DocFest next month. It's great to be part of such a rich and thoughtful programme. Looking forward to sharing more about the film soon.

30/04/2024

Join us at Birkbeck ARTS WEEK 2024 for a screening of our production "Weaving Knowledge" Dir. Anita Afonu/7 May/6pm/Birkbeck Cinema.

Weaving Knowledge is a film about making, material culture and childhood in West Africa. In four episodic narratives called 'weaving knowledge', 'transforming matter', 'making patterns', and 'constructing designs' the film poetically depicts the forms of knowledge embedded in children's everyday lives. It opens in a Senegalese village where women and girls are weaving baskets and ends with four boys, the children of fishermen, running joyfully into the sea carrying the toy boats they have made from discarded paint cans. Weaving Knowledge is about the ecology and embodiment of cognition, but it is also a homage to contemporary rural village life in West Africa.

More info:
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=41890