We had our second Dovertime meeting in our studio in the old sorting office last week. We had eight willing participants, three of whom brought along really fantastic photographs for the film. To get some inspiration we watched a few of The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle films by Zoe Beloff. Zoe uses archive footage of people and animals which really existed in Coney Island and edits it to create new fictional dream-like scenarios. The films are made using a lot of found footage and collage techniques which we hope to incorporate into the Dovertime film we are making.
In both of our meetings we have been developing the central narrative character, who will be a some sort image collector. We did a short exercise using postcards and each writing a description of a fictional character on one side, and then passing it to someone else to draw an image of this character on the other side of the postcard. Participants let loose and some really imaginative descriptions came out, as well as some surprising, beautiful and sometimes terrifying drawings. So far we have potentially got a man called Arthur Crocklewood who is from a fictional elsewhere called Shonite… watch this space! We also began to experiment with collage techniques something we will develop in future sessions when we will try out new techniques using archive and donated images of the town.
Submissions of photographs have been going well and we now have some fantastic snapshots of trains and showers, and people smoking, unlocking the front door, and playing badminton. Please keep spreading the word around as the more images we will have the more exciting the film will be!
See you all at the next meeting…
