Artist(s): Esther May Campbell and Chiz Williams
Partners: Screenology
Watkin Jones
Artists Esther May Campbell and Chiz Williams are working with the innovative film school Screenology to create a new work originating in the community around Gas Lane in central Bristol. The artists just began their six-month residency, initially engaging Screenology students to work with them on the film and later reaching out to other community partners.
This project is produced by Ginkgo Projects on behalf of Watkin Jones.
Flyer for film workshops at Screenology, courtesy Esther May Campbell and Chiz Williams
About Esther May Campbell
Esther May Campbell explores the links between image-making, story and play, while creating compelling images and films for public transmission. Intrigued by the potential to co-create via myth, ritual and old analogue photography, images emerge that are moving and alarming. She is often found working with young people around her kitchen table in Bristol. However, recent commissions further afield include image making with children in the Wye for the River Festival (2023/4), exploring songlines of city woodlands for MAYK (2024) and re-animating the concrete of Acton for the London Short Film Festival (2024). She completed a ten-month residency at St Paul’s Adventure Playground resulting in a city-wide exhibition and publication, ScrapBook. To date, her images have been published in books, films and print media, while farmyard exhibitions have touched thousands. Her explorations are generously funded by The Arts Council, WECA, Channel 4, BBC, BFI amongst others.
About Chiz Williams
Chiz Williams is co-founder and Lead Mentor at Kin – an intergenerational collective of community-makers. Current occupations include coaching at Packers FC – a community football club, being a director of Cables & Cameras, venue and production disco-ordination and co-developing RADMIN programmes that explore 'what artists can do for business'. His most consistent work in the last 23 years is as part of the workforce at the Cube Cinema, Bristol.
About Screenology
Based in the heart of Bristol, Screenology is a production company and film learning centre. Led by creative entrepreneur Tom Brereton Downs, Screenology was established in 2015 as a “film school for the 21st century”. In partnership with Plymouth Marjon University, Screenology offers its students a learn-by-doing approach. Many of their graduates have gone on to work for high-profile TV shows and channels, large YouTube channels and some setting up their own creative businesses.