A journey into the worlds of identity and culture through films made by children...
Tinkerhood is for children who want to share what they know about their world or who might be encouraged with the right facilitation to do so. It provokes some serious questions like what have children found out about the world and can they tell this in a story/film?
I made freinds with a Pupil Referal Unit Centre in Darwen and worked with children aged 6 to 11. The atmosphere would oscillate from peaceful to tense like an ECG on a graph. I soon understood that these were pupils with particular learning styles and proved perfect for Working Class Films! Artists like myself also appreciate being free and have our own response to rules and regluations most of the time in creative and fun ways like that time I was examining a nice looking street lamp in Longdsight in 97...past my bedtime
Sunnyhurst pupils were bursting with ideas, energy and spontaniety! We made Finder Keeper a story written by three pupils in collaboration with myself. The film is currently in the final stages of production and will be screened soon!!!! Check this page or subscribe to recieve updates!
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| Still taken from Finder Keeper 2012 made in friendship with Sunnyhurst Centre, Darwen, Lancashire |
...new call for interested schools and organisations to work with working class films in exchange for tea...
As part of Mbari Groups Say It Loud 2012 - a Black history education programme in partnership with Z-Arts, Working Class Films will be working with primary schools across Manchester to produce Tinkerhood: a journey into the worlds of identity and culture through films made by children.
For further information & booking contact http://www.z-arts.org/work-with-us/education/