ANNABEL MOODIE
Director - Editor - Researcher
friends on the outside
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about
CASA DO XISTO LAB 2025
The 16mm Immersive Laboratory took part over 7 days at Casa do Xisto, Portugal. Participants shot and develop 16mm films using caffenol and plant based developers, ending in a public screening with Curtas Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival.
morning glory - Curtas Vila do Conde 2025
BAL FILM SCHOOL 4 2024
In collaboration with Baltic Analog Lab and Filmwerkplaatz, BAL Film School is an advanced course in experimental film techniques via a series of in-person and online workshops over 5 months, with guest speakers and tutors including Peter Tscherkassky, Emmanuel Lefrant, Ben Rivers, Esther Urlus, Richard Tuohy, Ben Russel, Dagie Brundert and Bill Morrison.
expanded cinema test, BAL 2024
untitled, BAL 2024
FINDHORN
SELF DIRECTED 2022
A two week stay working in the gardens at Findhorn ecovillage community, researching human-plant connections, nature spirits and community life.
corkscrew hazel - Findhorn, 2022
WAKE UP, HANDS
IMPRINT COLLECTIVE 2022
Made in response to embodied filmmaking workshop with IMPRINT Documentary Collective, 2022.
Filmed while self-isolating using screen recordings, I try to locate my body in space. Over zoom my mother and I do Betty Martin’s somatic exercise “waking up the hands” and explore the significance of touch and attention.
PERELANDRA
MOVIMENTO 2020
Cucujaes, Portugal, 2020. A collaborative lab developed in accordance with non-competitve work processes, knowledge sharing and public screenings.
For two weeks 18 people lived and worked together in an uninhabited mansion in Northern Portugal. perelandra is a response to this place, where the few objects remaining included angelic statues, a chest of old magazines and sewing patterns, and a book on gardening written in both the voice of the author and the voice of nature spirits.
perelandra - movimento 2020
ALCHEMY FILM & MOVING IMAGE
RESIDENCY 2018
Residency at Cafe Tissardmine, on the edge of the Moroccan Sahara, 2018. Led by Dr Richard Ashrowan, Alchemy’s founder and former Creative Director, the residencies provided a supportive environment for artists to develop skills and knowledge in experimental film and artists moving image practice.
a delicate balance 2018
plants speak 2018, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2019
https://alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/lets-live-together/