Zimmerman, Andrea Luka (2025) Wayfaring Cinema Collective. [Show/Exhibition]
| Type of Research: | Show/Exhibition | ||||
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| Creators: | Zimmerman, Andrea Luka | ||||
| Description: | The Wayfaring Cinema Collective (WCC) was founded by Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Christo Wallers, Vanessa Scully and Liam Scully in May 2025. For immediate release: 20 August 2025 The purpose of the Wayfaring Cinema’s first tour was to test a new model of cinema provision in an age of increasing social-media-induced polarisation The Wayfaring Cinema pbrought people together in person around fire, film, food and conversation to enjoy being To meet the need for cultural solutions to contemporary challenges in our environment, neighbourhoods, economies and public spaces, the Wayfaring Cinema stands as a model for a Formerly known as the Thamesmead Travelling Cinema, this wagon cinema was made from within the Thamesmead community, honouring especially Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) ways of life that has been present at Thamesmead since before the estate was built. The cinema features in my film Wayfaring Stranger (2024, 69mins). An Arts Council England Grant in June 2025 enabled us to move the cinema to The Good Cave Project at Burnlaw, hold a series of workshops with young people, and a subsequent tour in the Northern England in some of the most deprived areas in the UK. The WCC toured Wayfaring Stranger (2024, 69mins), by Jarman Award-winning artist and cultural activist Andrea Luka Zimmerman, alongside works by Turner Prize-nominated artist Delaine Le Bas and acclaimed writer Damian Le Bas. The Wayfaring Cinema Collective are The Northern Tour, 2025: FILMS ‘Gypsyland’ (2014) by Delaine Le Bas. A series of short films based in London, Peterborough, Bolton and Glasgow, between 2023-2014. ‘Realities Checked’ (2024) by Damian Le Bas. A series of short films , scripted by Damian Le Bas using the anonymised words of Romany and Traveller people interviewed for the Realities Checked project. Damian Le Bas is a writer, filmmaker and visual artist. His first book The Stopping Places won the Somerset Maugham Award, a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award, and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Damian is widely published as a journalist and poet and was recently appointed as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. ‘Wayfaring Stranger’ (2024) by Andrea Luka Zimmerman charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven per formers, across seven days, representing seven decades. Filmed in landscapes marked by centuries of ceaseless, often destructive, human interaction, Wayfaring Stranger asks what it takes to find a liveable life on one’s own terms and without conflict with others and the environment. Andrea Luka Zimmerman is a Jarman Award-winning artist and filmmaker whose multi-layered practice explores fragile refusals and counter memories, itinerant lives, human and otherwise, in relation to structural and political injustice Funded by Arts Council England. Supported by Thamesmead Texas, Good Cave Projects, Fugitive Images and Calverts. |
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| Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | community making, embodied knowledge, GRT, freedom of movement, spatial justice, social justice, intimacy, environmentally sustaiable, connection, conversation, mutuality, common ground, co-existance, non extractive modes of culture | ||||
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins | ||||
| Date: | 2025 | ||||
| Funders: | Arts Council England | ||||
| Related Websites: | https://narcmagazine.com/news-the-wayfaring-cinema/, https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/hexham/the-burnlaw-centre/losing-the-plot-11/e-ykxyrb, https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/25437373.outdoor-indie-cinema-coming-lake-district-month/, https://thewappingproject.org/commissions/wayfaring-stranger/ | ||||
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| Related Exhibitions: | https://anne.art/event/wayfaring-stranger-2/, https://www.thamesmeadtravellingcinema.com/the-northern-tour-2025/ | ||||
| Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Abundant Earth, Durham, DH7 7RL 20 September 2025 20 September 2025 Star and Shadow Cinema Car Park, Newcastle, NE2 1BB 21 September 2025 21 September 2025 Auckland Palace, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7NR 22 September 2025 22 September 2025 Dodgson Wood, Nibthwaite Grange Farm, Lake District, LA12 8DB 24 September 2025 24 September 2025 The Burnlaw Centre, Hexham, NE47 8HF 6 June 2025 8 June 2025 |
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| Material/Media: | Cinema, Films | ||||
| Measurements or Duration of item: | wagon size | ||||
| Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2025 14:49 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 29 Oct 2025 14:49 | ||||
| Item ID: | 24940 | ||||
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/24940 |
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