Becoming Fireflies names for Copy Press its new digital imprint for moving image and spoken word; and it calls for a community of flashes shining out, dances in spite of all, of thoughts to transmit that engage with an ethos that puts engendering centre stage and are unrestricted by genre or category.
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TRANSMISSIONS
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Breaking Silence / Jono Lomax
A three-part film with the political choir Raised Voices as they rehearse and take protest songs to the streets against arms manufacturing, nuclear weapons, and in solidarity with Palestine, 12mins.
Image/Jono Lomax. Additional camera/Louis Higgins. Editing/Jono Lomax. Sound/Aled Wride. Sound Recordist/Louis Higgins. Creative Director/Yve Lomax. Graphics/Opal Morgen.
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That Other Night, the Wolf’s Night / Edith Marie Pasquier
16mm film, seeing as a wolf sees, recalling an encounter with a wolf in winter, Sweden, Sápmi, 8 mins.
Image and sound/Edith Marie Pasquier. Film editing/Rodrigo Cañas. Voice/Michael Schneider (carnivore specialist). Graphics/Opal Morgen. Post-production/Jono Lomax.
pdf download: script That Other Night, the Wolf’s Night
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Mountain Song /Jess Potter
Shaping sounds and images: the Scottish highlands, land, water, and the songs and voice of Nan MacKinnon, 12 mins.
Photography/Jess Potter. Video editing/Alex Culshaw. Songs and Story/Nan MacKinnon. Field Recording/Jess Potter. Musical Composition/Dengie Hundred. Script Editing/ Lomax /Hopley. Gaelic Translation/Raghnaid Sandilands. Graphics/Opal Morgan. Post-production/Jono Lomax.
pdf download: notes
pdf pamphlet: Tocher 38 (Spring 1983)
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Quiet as a Flower/Julian Lass
A pictureless film, a story of a buzzard and hiddenness. 7mins.
Voice-over/Julian Lass. Audio/Reuben Huxtable/Loftus Media. Sound editing/Julian Lass. Script editing/Yve Lomax. Post-production/Jono Lomax. Graphics/Opal Morgen.
pdf download: script quiet as a flower
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Weaver of Past Potentials/Manca Bajec
A stop-motion animation: a story of political and social amnesia, and a complex relationship with a socialist past. 7 mins.
Voice-over/Clair Le Couteur. Editing assistance /Lennaart Van Oldenborg. Sound design/Nayan Kulkarni. Post-production/Jono Lomax. Graphics/Opal Morgen.
pdf download: personal note and script
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Mad about justice /Yve Lomax
Mad about justice: spoken words, with images, forming a letter to a friend, 17 mins
Photography, Video editing/Jono Lomax. Script editing/Vit Hopley. Graphics/Opal Morgen.
pdf download: script and notes
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In a shallow time /Anne Tallentire
A silent animation exploring the limits of material and image, 5 mins.
Video editing/George Bularca. Photography, Post-production/Jono Lomax. Graphics/Opal Morgen.
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A Bird to overhear— /Brece Honeycutt
Audio-visual images: history, landscape, birds, 25 mins.
Photography, filming/Brece Honeycutt. Script, narrator/Brece Honeycutt. Script editor/Vit Hopley. Producer/Yve Lomax. Video-editing, Post-production/Jono Lomax. Graphics/Opal Morgen. Thumbnail image/Brece Honeycutt.
pdf download: script and notes
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Sunrises/Isobel Wohl
Words, description and language dawning, 11 mins.
Words, screen-recording/Isobel Wohl. Post-production/Jono Lomax. Graphics/Opal Morgen. Thumbnail image/Isobel Wohl.
Sky Pool/Jaspar Joseph-Lester
An audio-visual essay: image, capitalism and urban space, 10 mins.
Script – Filming – Direction/Jaspar Joseph-Lester. Narrator/Kristina Chan. Video-editing – Post-production/Jono Lomax. Editorial/Yve Lomax. Graphics/Opal Morgen. Thumbnail image/Joe Wolff Joseph.
pdf download: script, Sky Pool
Fungus/Bod Liqbt (Chris Fite-Wassilak & Mark Siebert)
Song, synthesized sound and a science fiction, 7 mins.
Video footage/Vivian Butterworth. Micrograph imagery/Jennifer McGaley & Lilah Fowler. Video editing/ Chris Fite-Wassilak. Post-production/Jono Lomax. Graphics/Opal Morgen.
pdf download: lyrics, Fungus
The Conversation/Gill Addison
Gesture, colour and sound, and a photograph taken at Cannes Film Festival 1966, 5 mins.
Director – Editor/Gill Addison. Post-production/Jono Lomax. Title graphics/Opal Morgen.
pdf download: script and postscript, The Conversation
Threshold/Jono Lomax
A film, silent, 6 mins.
Assistants/Hopley & Lomax. Graphics/Opal Morgen.
pdf download: a supplement
The Colour of Words/Jane Bustin
Notes from Latvia, images and a read performance in 6 parts, 5 mins.
Video editing/Jacob Gryn. Post-production/Jono Lomax. Graphics/Opal Morgen
pdf download: transcript, The Colour of Words
One after the other/Vit Hopley
Selected prose for voice and documentary, 30 mins.
Photography and video editing/Jono Lomax. Directing/Yve Lomax. Graphics/Opal Morgen
pdf download: transcript, One after the other
Political Life/Yve Lomax
A film, a spoken performance, 55 mins.
Photography and video editing/Jono Lomax. Script editing/Vit Hopley
pdf download: script, Political Life
pdf download: a personal note, Yve Lomax
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