MISS HOPE SPRINGS is the creation of award winning composer, lyricist ,playwright and performer Ty Jeffries. Ty spent some of his formative years in Hollywood when his father the British character actor Lionel Jeffries was over there making movies such as Joshua Logan’s Camelot, Ty once danced down Sunset Blvd with Fred Astaire and fell asleep in his soup over dinner with Frank Sinatra…he was only seven at the time.
I filmed Miss Hope Spring’s performance at the Leicester Square Theatre in London recently – here’s one of the original numbers – All The Fun of The Fair. You can see more from Miss Hope Springs here.
The event featured animations, videos, sounds and spoken word recordings created by the public through a series of digital arts workshops at the library. The final presentation was a half hour long, surround sound journey with the audience laid on their backs on comfy mats, whilst watching the projections on the ceiling overhead.
This is a sample of something that came out of our Mapping and Memory project last year. It turned out that one of the groups that we had been working with, the retired merchant seafarers, used to have run a website called www.liverpoolsailorsandships.com. However, for one reason or another, it was let go, along with a lot of the information and archives it had collected over the years.
We decided to use mapping and memory as a catalyst to re-invent the site, the original name wasn’t available but www.liverpoolshipsandsailors.com was, so here we go. This is a collaboration without funding resources so the only limits are really our time – so we’re keeping it simple – that way it doesn’t become a burden or interfere too much with paid work and can hopefully naturally grow. I’ll keep an update of things on here though.
Here is the final film the we produced towards the end of the Mapping and Memory project. It was a collaboration between National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool University and Re-Dock, looking at particular place and time – the south-central Liverpool waterfront from to the 1950s to the 1970s. It is also about Liverpool in the twenty-first century. The project involved a year of research and development, the results of which can been seen on the project website. The above documentary was one of the other outcomes, exploring the lives and memories of people who lived and worked on Liverpool’s central waterfront and the changes they have witnessed.
The film is also on view on the first floor of the Maritime Museum in Liverpool.
Following a variety of workshops and events looking at Liverpool Irish Heritage, a day of celebration was held at the Bluecoat in Liverpool on 22nd October 2011. It was a really great mix of different projects coming together, sharing experiences and showcasing work they had produced. A pleasure to film.
Here’s a selection of videos I made with the talented Sue Hewlet for Duckie’s Copyright Christmas show, based around the fictitious VSS Shopping Channel. All filmed in a day – hectic, but really fun to do.
Devised, directed, produced by Susannah Hewlett for Duckie’s Copyright Christmas
Script: James Anthony, Susannah Hewlett
Film maker and editor: Tim Brunsden
Graphics: Steve Nice
Sound: Simon Keep
Voice over: Simon Baxter, Alex Warner
Performers: Susannah Hewlett, Guy Weir
A short promotional video for the TUC I made with Stephanie Power. This was a bit of an experiment, filming all the participants separately and then knitting it together to give a coherent message.
I filmed this short trailer in a day at Duckie’s rehearsal studies in South London. The show ‘Copyright Christmas’ will be on a The Barbican from 10th December. I’m shorting some extra video parts for that this week.
I recently filmed Artist David Shrigley for this year’s AND Festival. He spent the day in Utilities shop window drawing on people, who then had the chance to get the artwork made into a permanent tattoo.
I’ve been doing some work with Artist, John O’Shea documenting his Pigs Bladder Football project, which featured as part of AND Festival this year. You can find out more about Johns work here
