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Boudica Bites Back
Ken Russell's ‘Boudica Bites Back' was an interdisciplinary project that was co-ordinated by CIRIC (Creative Industries Research Innovation Centre) in 2007/ 08. It involved SMU students from Art and Design, FADE and Performing Arts and gave them the opportunity to develop new skills, as well as gain exposure to working in a professional environment, under the tutorage of a multi-award winning film director (Ken Russell) and a multi-award winning film editor, Mike Bradsell.
The film began with incredibly ambitious aims; the entire piece (16 minutes) was to be shot in HD, on green screen, in the Art and Design TV Studio. To help contextualise how much time can be involved in using green screen, one week of filming for this project resulted in a post-production tail of more than ten months! The plot of the film was based around Boudica, Queen of the Iceni tribe, and her role of leading the uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire in approximately 60 AD. The demanding production process, utilising professional heads of department (including make-up, costume and camera) was only made possible by the excellent work of the SMU video students, who helped to crew the film, and the fine performances of the SMU Performing Arts actors and actresses. A large proportion of the post-production process required the technical wizardry of the FADE CGI modellers and animators, who produced numerous special FX shots- ranging from racing chariots to burning busts of Caesar.
All of the work from the SMU students surpassed even Ken Russell's expectations and both he and Mike Bradsell were delighted with the outcome of the project. Most importantly for the students, many of them received their first professional credit on the film and this experience will help them to establish their own careers within the creative industries.
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Marking Space
28 May – 12 June 2008
CIRIC’s first exhibition complements our one-day symposium ‘Marking Space’. This multi-disciplinary exhibition highlights the work of CIRIC research staff and select CIRIC members.
Artists and designers from many disciplines have explored sometimes very different interpretations of what it means to ‘mark space’. These explorations have been literal, metaphoric and metaphysical. Whilst some exhibitors have considered issues of gendered space, belonging and displacement, others have interrogated the meaning of virtual and physical space: how we occupy space and how we move through it. They all reveal the ‘marking’ of space to be both complex and fascinating: as infinitely recreated, simultaneously confining and boundless and, ultimately, challenging.
The ‘Marking Space’ exhibition has been generated with the support of CIRIC’s expertise and facilities. ‘Marking Space’ is shared between two venues: our ‘space’ and that of Mission Gallery. This sharing of space emphasises the connections and collaboration so implicit in our aim to support and develop creative arts practice in Wales.
Claire Angove
Daniel Butler
Elliot Davies
Beate Gegenwart
Julia Griffiths Jones
Anna Hopkins
Hyde + Hyde
Anna Lewis
Andrea Liggins
Angela Maddock
Georgia Mckie
James Moxey
Linda Nottingham
Brenda Oakes
Kirsty Patrick
Anne Reynolds
Helen Simons
Laura Thomas
Paul Alexander Thornton
Stephanie Tuckwell
Anthea Walsh
Delyth Walsh
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