One of the issues for me, as a Computer Scientist, is how technology can be used to support the telling of stories, the sharing of experiences, and how it can facilitate reflection and personal perspectives on the final intensely personal, yet shared and socially impactful experience that we will all encounter. Good technologies should empower people to …
We are proud to announce the Life: Moving exhibition, which will take place at St Barnabas Church in Erdington between the 28th and 29th April 2017. The exhibition features films by patients of John Taylor Hospice, and explores the power of film to communicate the meaningful and honest experiences of those affected by terminal illness. …
February has been a varied month that has seen our team shift focus from weekly filmmaking workshops at John Taylor Hospice to planning the exhibition at St Barnabas, tentatively set for the 28-29th April. Briony has continued to provide individual support to our film-makers, but otherwise we have been preoccupied with planning the exhibition. For …
At the end of January, I joined the charming Blake Woodham at the brum radio studio in Digbeth for his regular film n’ music slot. The focus of the show was on how cinema deals with death and dying: its mythic fantasies and more realistic fare. Also in the studio, was Dr Anna Locke, a …
This month has seen some of the project participants drifting away from the weekly workshop session format we’ve employed up to this point. We have had to adjust our approach to focus more on one-to-one meetings with participants, either at the hospice or visiting participants at home. It remans an open question as to how …
If November was about meeting the participants and introducing them to concepts around film-making, December saw participants fleshing out ideas and concepts, and in some cases putting them into practice. Briony gave every participant an exercise tailored to their specific interests: taking photos or video of meaningful objects and moments in a day, recording thoughts …
Having established contact with hospice staff and hospice users in October, we ran the first workshops in the day hospice at John Taylor in November. These initial sessions were primarily about introducing participants to the goals and aims of the project, and to discuss any goals and aims on the part of the participants. We …
‘Digital Technology and Human Vulnerability’ is a mouthful, and an indigestible mouthful at that, outside the context of academia at least. One of the first tasks of the team was to choose a clear and appealing title to carry the offer of our project to the hospice users we hoped to get involved. ‘Life Moving’ …
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