As part of the Platforms residency at The Lighthouse we have been developing a project that takes as its starting point the smuggling of Syrian and Iraqi artifacts out of the region and the power of the images generated by ISIS of their destruction. Here is a little bit of the familiar images. What […]
Anagram have been asked to be part of a development process with West Midland Archives. At risk o funding cuts the archives want to find a bold way to communicate the meaning of their existence. The hidden gems in their vaults. The work that their archivists do. And in their possession the piecemeal beginning and endings of stories. […]
After the incredible team worked their socks off to make the show happen, from scratch in a completely different country, Shari Frilot of Sundance, Charlie Philips of the Guardian and Andrew Golis, decided that Door Into The Dark should be awarded the prize for best project in the Storyscapes section of Tribeca Film Festival 2015. […]
April begins in 2 days. April 2015 is a particularly important month for Anagram. 2 years ago, in April 2013, we were sat in the bat cave of the Blast Theory basement. We were obsessed with getting lost (partly inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s book “A Field Guide to Getting Lost“). We didn’t know what to […]
A late night conversation with Casper Sonnen at the end of one of IDFA’s Doclab sessions precipitated an invitation to present on his South By South West Film Panel which took place yesterday with the title: “HOW TO PLAY WITH VR – LESSONS FROM PHYSICAL SPACE AND INK.” The starting point of the conversation was a shared sense […]
“It’s good sex. It’s bad conversation. It’s indeterminate behaviour, and it’s redundant result. It’s many things, none of which can be done alone. Interaction is a process that dictates communication. It can also be a communication that dictates process. It provides options, necessitates a change in pace and changes you as you change it.” says […]
When you make a noise into a little cone, the rope light that comes out the other end turns your sound into a moving rhythmic heartbeat of lights and then, where it touches the wall, those lights explode out into geometric patterns in direct correlation to the sounds you made. When you peer through the […]
“What do you consider the largest map that would be really useful?” “About six inches to the mile.” “Only six inches!” exclaimed Mein Herr. “We very soon got to six yards to the mile. Then we tried a hundred yards to the mile. And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a […]
From Imperica Last weekend, Door Into the Dark premiered at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival. Its not a film; there are no screens to look at. In fact, you won’t be able to see anything for the duration of the piece because it will be completely dark. Door into the Dark is the first answer we at […]
Now is the Time to Say Nothing opens this week at the Young Vic Theatre. It began with a difficult brief. Run a series of workshops with young people in London about Syria and from that create a durational installation, part theatre, part film, part performance. (Although performed only by the audience following instruction on […]
