All talks are free, but arrive early to guarantee a seat
Friday 24th 12.00pm - 1:00pm
The Folly Theatre, Hereford College of Arts
Working with the Dalai Lama - Joshua Dugdale
Director of The Unwinking Gaze, Joshua Dugdale spent three years circling the globe with HH the Dalai Lama. Joshua will share his experiences and tell you what it was like to have such extraordinary rare access to the most awe-inspiring spiritual leader on the planet.
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Friday 24th 3.00pm - 4.00pm
The Folly Theatre, Hereford College of Arts
How to make a successful Documentary - Joshua Dugdale
Joshua Dugdale will explain how he produced and directed The Unwinking Gaze, seeing the film through to its screenings at festivals all over the world and in over 20 UK cinemas.
Joshua Dugdale, who comes from Herefordshire originally, started his film-making career with the award winning "Pepe and His Cuban Heels" about life in Cuba. The film helped land him a job as producer at BBC Foreign and Current Affairs at the early age of 21. Among his other notable productions are the critically acclaimed 'LAPD Blues' (2002)
Friday 24th 3.00pm - 4.00pm
The Folly Theatre, Hereford College of Arts
My Life and Work: Tales from the Music Video Frontier - Price James
Price James started out at Hereford College of Arts and then moved onto Central St Martins where he graduated in 2004. After a stint as a guitarist in a hipster indie band he decided to return to his passion for film making. Signing with Ridley Scott's company RSA a year ago, he continues to direct music videos and tv commercials. He scooped the Channel 4 Talent Award for 2007 and has recently made it into the top 10 best new directors in the world for Boards Magasine 2008. He is also extremely tall.
You can see Price's work on beam.tv
Saturday 25th 12.00pm - 1:00pm
Hereford College of Arts
Pure Cinema: Talk by Michael Baig Clifford
Pure Cinema is the latest collaboration between BAFTA award winning director Michael Baig Clifford and Video Artist Ravi Deepres, who have been working together for three years exploring the intersections and common conventions between art and cinema. Starting with the notion that a classical painting is a chosen point in a narrative, they explore what happens before, as well as the still moment itself, using actors and the latest Hi Definition technology. They employed optical devices believed to have been used by classical painters, ‘Using a camera obscura was wonderful, and especially exciting was the realisation that we were creating images in the same way that the likes of Vermeer are thought to have done, but recording them with 21st Century technology’. The installation was co-commissioned by Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, and Fracture Dance and Moving Image Programme. Pure Cinema has subsequently been exhibited in galleries in the UK and China to rave reviews
