Reimagining the Film Archive: Spotlight Articles

Spotlight on Megan Roberts | The Box Plymouth
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Dec 2024

Spotlight on Megan Roberts

Megan Roberts, or Meg, is a participatory filmmaker who helps communities tell their stories on their own terms. She passionately believes that bringing people together through civic joy can make communities stronger. Meg is also the second recipient of the Emerging Artist Commission as part of the Reimagining the Film Archive (RtFA) programme.

Spotlight on Arun Sood
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Dec 2024

Spotlight on Arun Sood

Arun Sood is a Scottish-Indian writer, musician, academic, and intermedia artist whose diverse work captivates audiences across multiple forms. The Box is thrilled to be working with him on an emerging artist commission. Arun's focus will be on Power and Class, highlighting its impact on the south west.

Spotlight on Tariq Ali | The Box Plymouth
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Dec 2024

Spotlight on Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali is a decolonial anthropologist and researcher whose work is transforming how we understand visual history and its effect in present day thinking. Based in Devonport, he is a passionate advocate for using the power of film to reshape narratives around race, identity and history. He also works as an ambassador for the School of Society and Culture at the University of Plymouth.

Spotlight on Claire Kayes | The Box Plymouth
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Dec 2024

Spotlight on Claire Kayes

Claire Kayes is an early career researcher with a unique academic and professional background in art and inclusive education. Combined with her dynamic, evolving practice, this makes her an invaluable asset to The Box's research initiatives. Claire brings a fresh perspective on how language shapes inclusion - and exclusion - within the cultural sector.

Spotlight on Libby Bove
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Nov 2024

Spotlight on Libby Bove

Libby Bove is an artist whose practice is deeply rooted in archival methodologies, folklore, and documentary storytelling. She has been awarded a digital commission for the Reimagining the Film Archive (RtFA) programme that will draw on the rich traditions of folklore, mythology, and archival research. The final piece will be showcased in the Media Lab Gallery in March 2025, alongside the 'John Lyons: Carnivalesque' exhibition.

Spotlight on Tyler Mellins
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Nov 2024

Spotlight on Tyler Mellins

Tyler Mellins is an artist whose work often revolves around the themes of loss, memory, and time. He has been awarded a digital commission for the Reimagining the Film Archive (RtFA) programme that will explore the theme of Surrealism. His work will be showcased in the Media Lab Gallery in parallel to the 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes' exhibition in March 2025.

Spotlight on Imperfect Cinema | The Box Plymouth
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Aug 2024

Spotlight on Imperfect Cinema

Imperfect Cinema is a socially engaged collective for film, sound and moving image. They’ve produced and facilitated the creation of over 700 films, micro-cinema events, festivals, symposia and screenings, and produced and facilitated filmmaking workshops and screenings across the UK and internationally. They’ve also produced 'RE/POSIT/ORY', the new five-screen film currently showing on the screens in The Box’s Media Lab gallery, which examines the role of the archive. We caught up with co-founders Allister and Dan to ask them some questions.

Sharing Practice: Cinema Rediscovered 2024 | The Box Plymouth
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Jul 2024

Sharing Practice: Cinema Rediscovered 2024

The Box's Media Archivist, Stacey Anderson and Reimagining the Film Archive Discovery Media Assistant, Zahra Khanum were recently invited to be part of an 'Opening up the Archive' panel discussion, alongside colleagues from the BFI National Archive. The event was part of 'Cinema Rediscovered 2024' in Bristol - Watershed’s annual festival dedicated to the rediscovery and revival of great films.

Spotlight on Zahra Khanum, Discovery Media Assistant | The Box Plymouth
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Apr 2024

Spotlight on Zahra Khanum, Discovery Media Assistant

My name is Zahra Khanum. I am the newly appointed Discovery Media Assistant for our BFI funded Reimagining the Film Archive programme at the Box, Plymouth.