Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF)
- Submitting institution
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University of Derby
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 780052-1
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-Component Body of Work
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (BFMAF) is an annual international festival of moving-image visual arts. Established in 2005 by Co-founder, Curator and Festival Chair Huw Davies, the Festival provides a thematic creative programming of artists’ film and video and independent cinema, which explores new and innovative approaches to the exhibition and dissemination of moving image art. The work is contextualized through publications, and uses a mixture of selected and commissioned works focused around an Artists’ Trail, which links together fifteen site-specific architectural locations within the Town’s Elizabethan Ramparts.
The research contribution of Davies relates to the curation of the Artists’ Trail exhibitions of the 2014 and 2015 Festivals. Thematically, the 10th Edition of BFMAF ‘Border Crossing’ (September 2014) explored border identities and the crossing and transcending of global boundaries against the background of the Scottish Independence Referendum. The 11th Edition ‘Fact or Fiction’ (September 2015) questioned the ambiguous relationships between fact and fantasy, documentary and narrative and myth. Alongside the 2014 Festival, the book ‘TEN’ (ed. H. Davies) was published evaluating BFMAF’s contribution to moving image arts practice both past and present, including documented highlights of the commissioned work over the previous decade.
The Festival is part of the Arts Council England National Portfolio (NPO) and also receives core funding from the British Film Institute. Both editions featured the work of more than 55 artists and filmmakers from over 20 different countries and included up to 16 UK / international premiers and 6 specifically commissioned works. The commissions, selected from an international call, provide the opportunity for the creation of original new works as a response to the Festival theme and environmental location many of which have toured beyond the Festival, including artists Katie Davies (Oberhausen IFF); Ben Russell (Rotterdam IFF) and Seamus Harahan (Jarman Award 2015).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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