UNRAVEL NYC (2016)

10 day 16mm filmmaking workshop residency with community groups, school and families, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

In December 2016, Unravel’s residency at The Whitney Museum of American Art brought celluloid to new audiences in an accessible and hands-on way, stressing the experimental and tactile nature of collaborative camera-less filmmaking. We facilitated workshops with seven different community groups and schools, and staged three large-scale open access workshop events for families, teens and Whitney members, alongside the Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016 exhibition, curated by Chrissie Iles.

The film was hand manipulated: drawn, painted, scratched, stencilled, stickered and printed onto. The creative work produced was then edited into a short film for screening on the final day of the residency - each frame of film correlating to one unit of the 18,000-square-foot Neil Bluhm Family Galleries, where Dreamlands was installed.

The soundtrack incorporates an audio-collage of interviews with participants, ambient sound and optical sound from the painted filmstrip. Structured into three ‘acts’; we hear participants’ responses to questions concerning their present, past and future desires.

UNRAVEL NYC: Chris Paul Daniels, Maria Anastassiou, Joanna Byrne and Kelvin Brown.

See the Whitney Education blog post on the Unravel residency here