Peninsula Arts Film Commission

Film: Peninsula Arts Film Commission 2018 Premiere

As part of Plymouth Art Weekender, The Arts Institute will be screening work by Richard Broomhall, winner of the Peninsula Arts Film Commission 2018 and by Chris Bailey and Ieuan Jones, recipients of the Peninsula Arts Film Commission 2018 Prize.

Richard Broomhall is an artist who works with film, installation and photography. He begins with coastal locations where subsea fibre optics make landfall, exploring how the infrastructure of fibre optic networks inscribe and intertwine the politics of corporate and national power into landscapes and citizens’ bodies. The work constitutes...

Cultural investigation of lost communities wins inaugural Peninsula Arts Film Commission

A film inspired by folklore and an abandoned hovel in North Devon has been selected as the winner of an inaugural film competition.

Rasher / memory landscape is the brainchild of James W. Norton, and will be shown at an event in May after securing the 2016 Peninsula Arts Film Commission.

An experienced filmmaker, James has previously worked on projects for the Old Royal Naval...