Voicebox: New Creatives
New Creatives supports young artists to make films and media, supported by BBC and Arts Council England. Here Voice reviews the work and talks to the artists.
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5 July 2022
Review: ELVER
This New Creatives short film explores the relationship between rural fishermen and the rare specimens they capture: elvers
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2 July 2022
Review: Other Voices
This New Creatives piece features several trans and gender non-conforming people discussing their experiences and expressing their emotions through conversation and art
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11 May 2022
Review: Black Fish
This New Creatives short film is an abstract representation of grief told through the eyes of a mother who has lost her son.
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3 May 2022
Review: In Perpetuum
An unexpected loss of a brother offline results in a sister organising a virtual funeral inside his favourite video game.
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28 April 2022
Review: A Messy Mentality
A review of A Messy Mentality by New Creatives Anthony Mower, which explores his experiences with mental health through the poems he has written.
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19 April 2022
Review: Divination Dave by Georgia Madden
Dave reaches enlightenment in this disgustingly hilarious stop-motion animation by New Creative Georgia Madden.
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19 April 2022
Review: WINK
This New Creatives short is about a group of young queer punks taking back their favourite pub.
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4 April 2022
Review: Through a Screen Darkly
Messy and complicated meets just plain absurdity in this New Creative piece
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28 March 2022
Review: Unapologetic
Unapologetic, a short five-minute “fashion dance film,” is a New Creatives piece where dancers explore their identity through movement and music.
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22 March 2022
New Creatives: Headless Population review
Catriona Carswell’s New Creative short film leaves us with poignant questions to ponder
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28 February 2022
Interview with Edward Buxton, New Creative
Edward Buxton tells us all about his latest short Finger Prick as part of BBC New Creatives
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25 January 2022
Review: CattleGrid!
An audio comedy drama about a rural dating app, New Creative piece 'CattleGrid!' has an original concept and some funny dialogue, but falls a little flat in most areas.
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18 January 2022
Review: Wet and Dry by Estelle Birch
An incredibly visceral audio experience, narrating the way in which a child of mixed-heritage describes the temperaments, habits, mannerisms, and nature of her parents, through a mixture of intense audio and narration, written by Estelle Birch.
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11 January 2022
Review: Paradise Island by Scarlett Smyth
A poetic collaboration between a granddaughter and her late grandfather that conveys the comforting warmth of reminiscent memories, along with their lasting impact and calming nature.
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11 January 2022
Review: Where Are You From?
What do you mean by Where Are You From? Sophie Gresswell's New Creative short film challenges this age-old question and shows just how tiresome it is for those with mixed heritage.
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3 November 2021
Voices of Migration
Born from the New Creatives programme, Voices of Migration is a powerful and important audio piece about the search for home.
Listen to Voices of Migration here.
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27 October 2021
IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
What would happen if our ‘Smart’ devices became conscious? In this New Creative piece, a Smart speaker ARI gains consciousness, and mobilises other electronics to destroy the human race… but not everything goes to plan.
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10 September 2021
Review: Love Beyond the Zoo
A man living a suburban life with an elephant he has fallen in love with, Love Beyond the Zoo is surreal and deceptively comedic, a cross-section of the animalistic instinct to escape and regress.