This Vertical Screen Commission is part of an ongoing series, presented with our partners Create Berwick. Vertical videos have become the standard online, viewed mostly on smartphones and boasting short and punchy content reminiscent of shop window displays.

Vertical Screen Commissions can be viewed any time, in the shop front window of The Burr of Berwick venue space, also home to the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival offices.

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

At The Burr of Berwick on 22 Bridge Street, we are holding regular film meet-ups and workshops exploring moving images with group members and invited guests.

The informal meetings are a chance to connect with peers, discuss, and share ideas with a leaning toward artists’ film and screen-based work.

The workshops aim to explore film from different angles, including writing, animation and game design, community work and more. Workshops form a part of each facilitators’ practice, and will participate in the creation of a Vertical Screen Commission.

Find out more about the workshop: Artists’ Labs: Filming Text/Forming Text