Brandon John Barnard

  Today I am going to be going over the roundabout way in which ‘ Disseminate ’ came to be. While reading around the topic of ‘ Nouveau Réalisme ’, I came across something which I used to always enjoy doing as a kid and which I had forgotten about. Exquisite Corpses ! This is the game you play with your friends where you fold a piece of paper into different sections, and each person takes turns drawing a part of the overall picture, but no one can see the previous work until everyone is finished. To be honest, I had no idea that this was called an ‘exquisite corpse’, and neither does anyone else I talk to about it. Everyone  knows  the game in some capacity, but just know it as ‘that paper game’. An exquisite corpse that was made on the 24th of August 2024, when I was in the early phases of my thoughts. It was done by me (hat), my wife Isobel (the face), and my friends Louis (shoulders) and Art (hands). In terms of my PhD (Chance in Filmmaking), this is a great look into ...

  This piece goes into the history of how my short film   ‘Circles’  came to be. Flashing light warning  for this one!! 🔵 🔴 🟡 🟢 🟣 🟠 🔵 🔴 🟡 🟢 🟣 🟠 The film which I consider the first in my artistic, chance-filmmaking journey is ‘ Broodiest Flunkey’.  While I have been creating films since I was very little to various degrees. This is the first one where I had an image in my mind of doing it seriously. This film was originally created, both for my MA Experience Design course, and so it could be shown at  Imperfect Cinema’s   Cinaesthesia 2  event, which was run by  Patrycja Loranc . As part of this event, there was the ability in the morning to attend a workshop. In attendance was my wife Isobel, Tim Francis, Sam Johnson, Patrycja Loranc, Dan Paolantonio, Kate Stubbs, and myself. The purpose of this workshop was for all of us to collectively contribute to a film which would be shown at the end of the event. Most of us would film the f...