12/6/15 A Model Community premiere screening
‘A Model Community’ will have it’s first screening in New Bolsover on Saturday 13th June. It is a new film by Ian Nesbitt in collaboration with Friends Of New Bolsover, the newly formed residents’ association. It is the third in a triptych of films exploring peripheral social histories in the Bolsover area. The 200 houses […]
25/3/15 OPERA
OPERA (Open Public Experimental Residential Activity) is a project by Studio Polpo exploring collective forms of living. It uses the freedom and stealth afforded to performance to introduce temporary and sociable residential uses into city centre locations. Out/Side/Film has been commissioned by Studio Polpo to make a film about the project for the ‘Housing – […]
12/2/15 New Film ‘Settlers In England’
‘Settlers in England’ is a forthcoming film by artistfilmmaker Ian Nesbitt about the Oxcroft Land Settlement near Bolsover, high on a hill in the NorthEast corner of Derbyshire. Between 1934 and 1939, the Land Settlement Association (LSA) established 1,100 smallholdings within 26 settlements across the country, the objective of which was to re-settle unemployed workers […]
27/7/14 Dead Rat Orchestra tour film
Tomorrow Ian Nesbitt will be setting off on an(other) unusual journey, camera in hand and microphone balanced on shoulder or something, probably. He will be travelling with the Dead Rat Orchestra, who will undertake a unique tour across the canals and waterways of Southern England. Through August 2014 the DRO will chart these inland waters, […]
21/7/14 Open Kitchen Social Club launch
Open Kitchen Social Club is a new venture for us in that it has nothing to do with film! Well not yet anyway, though there may well be film/media projects that come out of it. At it’s inception (now) it is a weekly community event, the focus of which is to provide food, support, and […]
2/7/14 New Commission
Very pleased to announce that filming has started on 2 new commissions for Junction Arts. Junction Arts commissioned ‘Underground Music’ in 2012 and there will now be 2 more films by Ian Nesbitt completed this year. The two films can be understood as a diptych and will focus on historical experimental communities in the Bolsover […]
6/6/14 ‘Taking The Michael’ at Glastonbury Festival
Very pleased to announce that ‘Taking the Michael’ will be returning to it’s spiritual home in the South West again for another screening in the wonderful Groovy Movie solar-powered cinema tent at Glastonbury Festival. It was shown to a full tent last year during the only rainshower of the festival which bizarrely lasted almost exactly […]
20/4/14 ‘Uncertain Ground’ U.S screening
‘Uncertain Ground’, a brand new short film by Ian Nesbitt, only finished in March, has been selected for screening by Milwaukee Underground Film Festival. The film documents life and community in an unnamed floating village on Gaya Island, off the coast of Malay Borneo. the village is not recognised by the Malaysian government and does […]
17/02/14 Working on something new!
We’ve begun work on a new project, working with travelling horseman, musician and tinsmith Michael and his gypsy cob Tarateeno. We met Michael during the filming of ‘Taking The Michael’ and the project has been bubbling slowly over the last 2 years. Filmmaker Ian Nesbitt will be following Michael over the course of 2014, meeting […]
27/9/13 ‘Underground Music’ at Sensoria Festival
We’ve been invited to curate an event on Friday 28th Sept as part of Sensoria Festival. You can read an interview about the project with director Ian Nesbitt for Sheffield blog Our Favourite Places here. As well as inviting Creswell Colliery Band over for a gig, and showing ‘Underground Music’ the film Ian Nesbitt collaboratively […]
10/6/13 ‘Taking the Michael’ at Sheffield Doc/Fest
We’re very happy to announce that ‘Taking The Michael’ has been selected for the Sheffield Doc/Fest Videotheque 2013. The festival is on from tomorrow but unfortunately it’s only available for viewing in the delegate only section so you’ll have to buy a delegate’s pass for £250 or, ahem, buy a DVD from us.
23/3/13 The Gathering blog goes live
image courtesy of Laura Page Photography We had a blog launch/St Patricks/end of project celebration for the Gathering yesterday. It went brilliantly, loads of familiar faces and a few we hadn’t seen before coming out of the woodwork. The most amazing John Dowling and the Shamrock Band gave us a few numbers and there was […]