Show & Tell 2 by Abovegroup Ogilvy

Abovegroup presents Show & Tell partnering with Studio film club
A series of creative presentations and conversations

7-30 p.m Thursday 4th April 2009

Being in the Creative Industries in Trinidad & Tobago can be a lonely experience. We go through our days, pushed on by deadlines, clients, pitching for work, existing in little pockets but rarely venturing out.

How often do we actually get to talk to one another about the things that we are really interested in? For a group of people that have so much in common, not enough.

We do a monthly event, with a short presentation each session by at least one group or individual on a point of interest in any of the following disciplines:

Graphic Design / Photography / Advertising / Branding / Writing / Poetry / Illustration / Architecture / Interior Design / Furniture Design / Landscape Architecture / Urban Planning / Typography / Identity / Chocolate Blending / Spirit Blending / Publishing / Fashion Design / Retail Design / Jewellery / Sculpture / Music / Film / Animation / Fine Arts / just about anything else

Work can be commercial, non-commercial, published, conceptual, personal, whatever. Something that you’d like to share and discuss.

Sorry we missed a few sessions due to a rather important event called ‘carnival’ But we are back up and running! Introducing Stephen Gill, a UK photographer and long term friend of Abovegroup producing new work on Trinidad. This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity for anyone interested in; mixed media book publishing/photography/art with a sly commentary.

It will be followed by the haunting 1st feature film by Dom Rotheroe. (Known for the award winning coconut guerillas previously shown here at SFC)

Rosy Home Counties schoolgirl Jessica (Harrison) is unimpressed by most of her peers’ standard acts of teenage unruliness, but intrigued by the boy who hides up trees from them and calls her ‘Fee’ - fi, fo, fum. This Tom (Whishaw), who shows her his favourite refuge beside a lake deep in the woods, has a hounded, feral quality, as if thoroughly unsocialised. But when Jessica herself experiences the adult world’s depredations at the hands of her most trusted teacher, she rejects domestic respectability for the rare, primal intimacy offered by Tom in his sylvan sanctuary. This anti-fairytale is a fervent, effusive account of adolescent metamorphosis that’s sharp but not pat on the claustrophobia of a middle-class family. It’s almost pantheist out in the woods, where a religious anarchism confronts the complacent hypocrisy of Church and school chaplain with the kids’ shows of suffering, communion and ecstasy. It’s shot on handheld DV in an intimate go-go style with an urgent intensity; improvising like mad, the two young leads give vibrant, irrepressible performances.

Episode 2

Retrospective/ Art photography / Stephengill.co.uk

Posted in on 04th Apr 2009