AND Festival 2015 \\ Grizedale Forest, UK \\ 18 -20 September
The festival created a space where audiences could experience the forest anew through inviting world-class artists to create new art works for the historical site. We turned the forest into a laboratory, which became a temporary haven for filmmakers, artists, creative technologists, philosophers and scientists, who explored the secret infrastructure of the forest and natures processes. The programme provided new perspectives on the forest, through the eyes of the plants, animals and machines that inhabited it, allowing visitors an insight into natures technologies as well as emerging trends in digital practice.
A site for discovery and adventure, AND Festival 2015 at Grizedale Forest created a space for audiences to experience the forest anew…
Read moreIntroduction to AND Festival 2015
Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
For those curious about drones, Drone School brought together like minded drone enthusiasts and pilots to share their interest in drone technology…
Read moreDrone School (2015)
Sat 19th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
We are part of the privileged third of the world’s population that has access to the Internet. Teams at Facebook and Google…
Read moreHow to appear offline forever? / Sebastian Schmieg
The wild landscape of the Lake District is a consequence of millions of years of geological processes, myths and folklore. Echo Wanders…
Read moreEcho Wanders / Universal Assembly Unit (2015)
Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
Predator/ Dir. John McTiernan/1987/18 Dutch and a small group of commandos are sent by the CIA to a Central American jungle to rescue…
Read moreLate Night Drive-In: Predator (2015)
Fri 18th Sep 2015
This networking event was built upon the launch of the Project Daedalus Toolkit, an online resource aimed at helping cultural organisations begin…
Read moreDrone Networking (2015)
Fri 18th Sep 2015
The Singing Ringing Tree/ Dir: Francesco Stefani/1957/U You were invited on a dreamy journey, drawing on the forest as a site for fairytale…
Read moreBFI LOVE: The Singing Ringing Tree (2015)
Fri 18th Sep 2015
Moonrise Kingdom / Dir. Wes Anderson/2012/12A On Saturday 19th of September, the forest turned into a campsite for runaways as Moonrise Kingdom took centre…
Read moreBFI LOVE: Moonrise Kingdom Drive In (2015)
Sat 19th Sep 2015
AND Festival joined up with Star and Shadow to run a film retreat, ‘Losing the Plot’ deep within Grizedale Forest. Spectatorship as…
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