Beyond the Frame

This project creates an experience that gives equal opportunities for the underrepresented voices and focuses on the truth of storytelling. Films that embody the concept of authenticity should resonate truthfully with human emotion and experience. Authenticity’s other visual indices reside in the mise-en-scène: directing, costume, production design, locations, props and casting. Everyone can participate in a film production on reframing inauthentic scenes into authentic narrative, where people are given a chance to try out filmmaking to express their true selves in crafting a genuine and innovative storytelling.

Beyond the Frame is an “emerging programme” part of the Brighton Biennale 2022. This festival will curate a variety of speculative designs from the Near Futurists’ Alliance students of Brighton University. Each “emerging programme” explores a series of future studies in a crusade for policy change that allowed the students to create different immersive future scenarios - a look on a ‘new’ viewing experience on production of films, family, education, sex, social gathering, dance, culture and many more.

The festival maintains its material, spatial, and cultural specificity that architecture inspires the ways we live together. In that respect, the students had the willingness to dream and wanting to immersed themselves in imagined worlds that allows them to bring all three key interests together: human behaviour, spatial design and speculative design. As time passes, these future speculations of studies that were once plausible, will start to become probable.

Films go through many transformations as they are transferred to video, but the most important visual aspects of a film are through its production. Films that embody the concept of authenticity, should resonate truthfully with human emotion and experience. Authenticity’s other visual indices reside in the mise-en-scène: costume, production design and locations, props and casting.

Authentic storytelling requires both the actors on-screen and the people working behind the camera to understand the experiences of the people whose stories they’re telling. Having a diverse group of people working behind the camera allows themselves to express their true selves in crafting a genuine and innovative storytelling. This allows filmmakers to commit on producing ground-breaking storytelling, visionary world- building and the unpacking of contemporary social issues.

This exhibition champions specific perspectives and artistic collaborations with unique and traditionally under-represented voices working behind the camera. It creates an experience that gives equal opportunities for the underrepresented voices and focuses on the truth of storytelling. Beyond the Frame will be held in Queen’s Park, Brighton, where it is filled with characters which allows people to be immersed in this truthful experience of filmmaking behind the camera. This creates a delicate balance of providing images that allow an audience to feel like they’re watching a real experience. But presenting it in a way that’s providing a larger lens to look through. Over the course of four weeks, everyone is invited to participate in a real-time production to turn inauthentic film into authentic.