Mark French produces and curates films for Coastal Currents including our Digital Open Studios, 2020
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Director/camera/editor of arts and music documentaries. Film curator for Hastings Coastal Currents Festival and Hastings Filmmakers; Partner – Shoot on Site studio, St Leonards – www.shootonsite.org; Studio manager at Broadley Studios, London film and TV studio 1988-2018. Arts films include: “The Catch” with Laetitia Yhap; “Timelines” with Roland Jarvis; “Hear Now” with Trevor Watts; Super 8 projects for Coastal Currents: “Hand me Down” 2017, “Rites & Rituals” 2015, “Seaside Super8” 2014 Film credits as lighting gaffer include: “Dreams of a life”, “The Falling” and “Edge” (Dir: Carol Morley), “Ghosts” and “Battle for Haditha” (Dir: Nick Broomfield), “The Road to Guantanamo” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes” (Dir: Michael Winterbottom), “The Wicker Tree” (Dir: Robin Hardy), “Pressure” (Dir: Ron Scalpello), “Chemical Wedding” (Dir: Julian Doyle), “Winterlong” (Dir: David Jackson) Documentaries include: “Bruce Springsteen story” BBC4, “Roy Orbison” BBC4 Dir: Nigel Cole TV series as lighting camera operator include: “Movie Lounge” Channel 5, “Horror Bites” Horror Channel, “Back to the 1950’s” BBC, “Heart of the Soul” Gary Zukav (US), “Paul McKenna Show” (US), “Media Review” Dartmouth Films BFI Extra with Mark Kermode. Corporate webcasts and training videos for a wide range of clients including Publicis, Accenture, GSK, Pearson, BBC, ITV, Channel 4. Education: Dartford Grammar School The Drama Centre London (Graduate degree equivalent) (FROM: https://www.pechakucha.com/users/mark-french#show )
2019: Exspira Machina/Kwaidan AI: Yumino Seki/Mark French/Afrit Nebula A ghost in the machine trapped by a scanner, unable to escape her own memory. Live performance by Yumino Seki and Afrit Nebula.
