Film Club@BFF2026

We are delighted this year that we are joined by two amazing short film makers.

In The Fisher Theatre Gallery: Friday 4th and Saturday 5th September

Friday 4th:     Meg:     10.30 - 12, Hazel 12.45 - 1.30, Meg 2.15 - 3.00, Hazel 3.45 - 4.30, Hazel 6-7pm

Saturday 5th: Meg 12.00 - 12.45, Hazel 2.00 - 2.45, Meg 3.45 - 4.30, Hazel 6.00 -7.00pm

Meg Amsden and Hazel Marsh

Meg Amsden: has been involved in film-making since the 1970s, initially as an actor and occasionally editor of standard 8 underground shorts. After a 15 year break, she ran children’s super 8 film-animation workshops between 1992 and 2000, as part of the Sound of Wangford village project. In 2012/3 Psyche Open the Box, a puppet film shot out of doors in Suffolk, was followed by Spooky Folk – an on-going series of short shadow-puppet films each one the length of a gothic folk song about different aspects of women’s lives. She has been making wildlife films since 2015, including Caught in the Act, a mash-up of rail camera footage with Suffolk Otter Group, which toured wildlife and community groups from 2017 – 2019.

Hazel Marsh: I am Professor of Cultural Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. My research is interdisciplinary, and focuses on issues concerning social and cultural justice, the politics of representation, the creative arts and community action, culture and disaster risk reduction, music and social movements, conflict and displacement, education, health and environmental inequalities, and the contributions of Romani and Traveller groups to the societies they live in.

Meg will show a short programme of 4 of her Spooky Folk films;

Michael and the Raven, The Unquiet Grave, The Outlandish Knight and The Gartan Mother’s Lullaby, with original versions of the songs by Nicolette Vine, Nico Brown, Jenny Nutbeem, Amanda Potter, Bryn Raven and Meg herself, and featuring the flute playing of the late Ted Potter. They will be interspersed with two films made by Suzie Hanna, Emerita Professor Animation at NUA: I Made My Love a Garland, sung by Hannah Sanders; and The Youngest Sailor by Hannah Sanders and BenSavage.

Hazel will show her film ‘A basket full of eggs’.

I have collaborated with Patrin Films, the UK's first Romani-led film collective, to produce 'A Basket Full of Eggs' (18 minutes, 2025), a documentary focusing on the contributions of Romani Gypsies and Travellers to British folk music styles and repertoires