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This screening includes intro and Q&A with the director and the artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey.
The Art of Activism
Ackroyd & Harvey: The Art of Activism is the latest film from award winning documentary maker Fiona Cunningham-Reid, offering intimate and singular access into the lives, work and partnership of Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey.
Intrinsically bound up in protest, the film follows the pair collaborating with Extinction Rebellion, and co-founding the movement, Culture Declares Emergency. Their work is uncompromisingly preoccupied with the climate and ecological crisis, and has become a rallying point for the environmental movement. It won them international acclaim, but the film leaves us in no doubt - they'd be creating whether the world was watching or not. Some of their pieces stand in prestigious galleries, others are embedded in nature. Their work not only references the natural world, but also regularly employs it.
The artists use photosynthesis in their multi-award winning photographic work: light projected through a negative image onto grass grown from seed. Complex images are created on a molecular level in blades of grass through the production of chlorophyll, evoking notions of passing time and transience.
- Year:
- 2024
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Subtitle Language:
- English
- Director:
- Fiona Cunningham-Reid
- Filmmaker:
- Belinda Parsons
- Editor:
- Catherine Arend
- Composer:
- Richard Durrant
This page is to obtain access to the broadcast of this Sands Films Cinema Club presentation
To attend in person in our cinema, please CLICK HERE
*
This screening includes intro and Q&A with the director and the artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey.
The Art of Activism
Ackroyd & Harvey: The Art of Activism is the latest film from award winning documentary maker Fiona Cunningham-Reid, offering intimate and singular access into the lives, work and partnership of Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey.
Intrinsically bound up in protest, the film follows the pair collaborating with Extinction Rebellion, and co-founding the movement, Culture Declares Emergency. Their work is uncompromisingly preoccupied with the climate and ecological crisis, and has become a rallying point for the environmental movement. It won them international acclaim, but the film leaves us in no doubt - they'd be creating whether the world was watching or not. Some of their pieces stand in prestigious galleries, others are embedded in nature. Their work not only references the natural world, but also regularly employs it.
The artists use photosynthesis in their multi-award winning photographic work: light projected through a negative image onto grass grown from seed. Complex images are created on a molecular level in blades of grass through the production of chlorophyll, evoking notions of passing time and transience.
- Year:
- 2024
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Subtitle Language:
- English
- Director:
- Fiona Cunningham-Reid
- Filmmaker:
- Belinda Parsons
- Editor:
- Catherine Arend
- Composer:
- Richard Durrant