Part Fish is a short documentary that investigates the interaction between autism, burnout, stimming and our environments. The film is due for completion in 2025.
More information:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1499333626/part-fish
Director: Janet Hardbord
Role: Contributor
A film shot in 1957 in at the Maudsley Hospital, London, captures the movements and behaviour of children under observation for atypical behaviour. In the present day, three autistic respondents watch the footage, bringing new insightful interpretations of the children’s behaviour as they explore the sparse environment of the clinic. Through speculation and identification, with wit and audacity, the responses forge a new soundtrack from an autistic point of view. As the film evolves, it takes on the rhythms and repetitions of the children’s activities, becoming a playful homage to the body language of autism.
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
Hot Docs Documentary Festival 2024
Krakow Film Festival 2024
The film was also adapted for radio as part of Short Cuts on BBC Radio 4:
Link to listen
A documentary made as part of a tree planting and consultation project ran by Raise and Full of Noises. The film documents a series of artistic interventions in propsective woodland areas.
Due to release online later in the year.
A film created for Signal Film and Media as part of West Coast Photo festival (2020 - 2021)
In 1982 Chris Killip captured Boy with Pigeon while in Askam-in-Furness, a classic work depicting a young boy proudly clutching a bird, looking up and above the camera lens. Chris Killip sadly passed away last year; for this show, local photographer Phillip Green revisits the image, echoing Chris’s tender visual sensibility across the years. The new work depicts the same boy — now a man — once again holding a pigeon.