Join a free workshop looking at the visual presence and reception of text.

Led by artist filmmaker Lyndsay Mann and artist and writer Anna Chapman Parker, we will look at how artists and writers can use filmmaking practices in order to advance the visual presence and reception of text.

With accessible techniques, using smartphones and phone editing, we will explore processes including:

• Camera and smartphone set-up for filming text on screens and in print
• Capturing erasure, correction and re-writing
• Using the body or embodied methods to reintroduce ‘live-ness’ and uncertainty into published work
• Communicating the physical construction of language using scale, sequencing and editing
• Exploring relationships between the written and spoken word through voiceover

This is a peer-led workshop conceived as a space for co-learning, idea-exchange and experimentation. Together we will test out 5–10 short-form digital filming and editing approaches, with an emphasis on the use of moving images to develop and share creative practice. No equipment or experience of filmmaking is required, and we welcome participants from all creative sectors. Participants are invited to bring a short text – either their own writing or a short piece they would like to work with.

Key Information:

Date: Saturday 3 May 2025

Time: 2pm – 4pm

Location: The Burr of Berwick, 22 Bridge Street, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1AQ

Venue Access Information: https://bfmaf.org/location/22-bridge-street/

To bring:

• Smartphone with earphones
• Short text
• Small tripod / phone grip / selfie-stick (optional)

About the artists/facilitators:

Lyndsay Mann is an artist-filmmaker based in Berlin and Edinburgh. Her work connects archives, institutional histories and objects, and the ways these shape current communities of practice. lyndsaymann.com

Anna Chapman Parker is an artist and writer based in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Her work navigates relationships between drawing, text and the body, particularly in connection with observation practices, as in her recent book Understorey (Duckworth Books, 2024). annachapman.co.uk