Shape, Rhyme and Rhythm: on the creative potential of moving image description

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The function of captions is to make images accessible to those who can't experience them visually, we’re interested in exploring that function. Captions often look and describe images from outside, we’re attempting to turn that inside out and discover the language that the image might articulate. Abstract imagery is evocative and generates affect and sensation, it bypasses narrative. How do we bring back the affect of abstract imagery to language through the function of captions?.

This DIY Filmmaking workshop has two parts. In the first part we will focus on abstract image making to create a collective film using digital cameras (phones + digital cameras). In the second part, we will play with language as we explore the poetic potential of image description.

This workshop is the first iteration of an ongoing research project that aims to expand how we think and engage with making moving image works accessible through a creative exploration of the potential of image description.

Daniella’s practise uses divination and different forms of reading as alternative routes to make meaning

Daniel makes films and is interested in the ways in which abstraction are tied to the politics of material culture, improvisation and jazz.