Roy Claire Potter
Roy Claire Potter is an artist who performs, publishes and exhibits. Influenced by linguistics and performance theory, they often collaborate with musicians and sound artists for radio broadcast and music festivals. Across the wide range of their work that includes drawing, installation, experimental art writing, vocal performance and moving image, Roy tells stories built from fragmented, intense images that depict moving bodies or domestic scenes and architectural settings.
Roy’s interest in communication constraints, subtext and narrative sequencing is felt in the way they use fast-paced talking or reading speeds and restricted or partial views of space. Complicated social or group dynamics and the aftermath of violent events are common themes in Roy’s work, and are usually treated with a dark, sometimes wilful humour.
They have have recently presented work with Book Works, Serpentine, Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (2024), PRIMARY (2022/3), BBC Radio 3 (2020), Tate Britain and Tate Publishing (2019). Roy has published two chapbooks of experimental art writing, Round That Way (Ma Bibliotheque, 2017) and Mental Furniture (VerySmallKitchen 2014) and recently a novella, The Wastes (Book Works, 2024) commissioned by artist Katrina Palmer for Arrhythmia, a series of artist books that explore ideas of being out of joint with the predominant social order. Shorter works are published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Hotel Partisan, Tate Publishing, and CCA Derry-Londonderry.
A chance to drop-in, meet up and softly extend the themes of the project: community care, self care and palliative care as three pillars of care drawn by lgbtqia+ support groups and alternative healthcare. Pastries and tea included!
An event series, resource and film library inspired by the use of caravans as a therapeutic retreat. Join us throughout the festival as three artists from Scotland, the Netherlands and Canada hosted by BFMAF explore resilient LGBTQIA+ community led care.
Your festival pit stop! Drop in for information about the town and the Festival – or simply warm up, catch up with friends, and take a breather between screenings. Our doors are open 10am–4pm throughout the Festival.
Relaxed Screenings are taking place at the Town Hall Council Chamber, our Relaxed Screen. Films are shown at the same time as screenings at the Maltings’ Cinema at the Barracks.
Tracing the fragile, performative labour of communication across political stages and intimate sensory worlds, two films probe how meaning is transmitted, distorted, and sustained through noise.
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The quiet radiance of everyday acts emerges between a beautiful portrait of a Bangladeshi centenarian and a tender chronicle of a woman choosing a dignified death. This Focus programme touches on themes of ageing, autonomy, and what it means to inhabit—and ultimately release—the body.
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A participatory workshop exploring grief, communitarian care, and ways of imaging what we might palliate – led by Toronto/Tkaranto–based artist and community activist Mikiki.
Dub Epistemology is a series of hybrid talks and live audio essays by Ashley Holmes that treat sound as both archive and method—foregrounding movement, repetition, and re-performance as tools to imagine histories that circulate, mutate, and persist through listening, replay, and versioning.
Lesley Loksi Chan’s poignant work of archival intimacy blends fragments of her research notes with the unfinished footage of Lloyd Wong, a man who documented his life living with AIDS in the early 1990s. Rough and unprocessed, her film explores the meaning of queer inheritance, of incompletion, and the act of repeated looking.
A kilted warrior crowns the New York skyline in this joyous tribute to Jesse Rae, a musician from the Scottish Borders who plugged into the electric current of Parliament-Funkadelic. From bringing 80s NYC to a standstill atop the Brooklyn Bridge to shaping seminal hits like Inside Out, Rae fused tartan swagger with transatlantic groove to craft a mythic, pluralist vision of Scotland in the key of funk!
Join us for a full-throttle karaoke party inspired by the unstoppable spirit of Jesse Rae! Expect big tunes and zero inhibitions as we celebrate life, funk and fearless individuality the only way that feels right: loud, joyful and together!