Notes From Brook House
Ford School education partnership with the Ann Arbor Film Festival selection
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Airports, detention centers, sea containers. Slow, roaming shots linger on places of passage and confinement, where movement is measured and controlled. Fragments of stories, words passed from one person to another. Encounters along the way reveal different ways of seeing, different ways of understanding. Voices emerge, sharing stories from those held inside Brook House, a large immigration centre on London's outskirts. Through shifting perspectives, the film examines migration, control, and the space between perception and reality.
Filmmaker bio:
Alex Nevill is a filmmaker and director of photography based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has photographed several independent feature films as well as short projects funded by Creative England, Channel 4, Film London and the British Film Institute. His work has screened at major film festivals such as BFI London, Edinburgh, Ann Arbor and IDFA.
Alex participated in film development programmes with Sound Image Culture (Belgium), UnionDocs Centre for Documentary Art (USA), the Scottish Documentary Institute (UK) and has undertaken residencies at the School of Art Institute of Chicago (USA) and Transart Institute for Creative Research (Germany). He completed an MFA at the Screen Academy Scotland and a PhD at the University of the West of England. Alongside his creative work, Alex teaches in the film department at Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh.