Sketch Thieves Again from Siôn Marshall-Waters on Vimeo.
Thieves Again, Sketches from the Black Mountains is an ongoing research and development project by filmmaker Siôn Marshall-Waters in collaboration with artist Stefhan Caddick and Peak.
Employing methodologies associated with ethnographic filmmaking, documentary photography and soundscaping, the project explores ways of evoking the lived experiences and perspectives of the region. The project addresses various aspects of community, identity and belonging in contemporary Welsh agriculture and rural life.
Siôn is working closely with communities at Partrishow, Forest Coal Pit, Waun Fach and Abergavenny to create a series of vignettes that draw on the mundane, surreal and poetic aspects to living in the Black Mountains.
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This phase of the research will culminate in film screenings in the Black Mountains and Cardiff.
Saturday 27 April - Llangenny Village Hall, Llangenny, NP8 1HA
Saturday 4 May - Sull, Capitol Shopping Centre, Queen Street, Cardiff, CF10 2HQ
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Siôn Marshall-Waters is a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in South Wales. A recent graduate from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, his projects explore people's relationship with place; how notions of place are…
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