Education and Entertainment in the Early Moving Image
Mirror Mirror explores the educational potential in early cinema and pre-cinema ephemera. We devise bespoke workshops, screenings, talks and events including
- Film analysis workshops featuring the work of Thomas Edison, Georges Méiliès and Mitchell and Kenyon- incorporating curriculum requirements that cover history, citizenship, literacy and media studies.
- Family orientated ‘hands on’ workshops that use persistence of vision toys including thaumatropes, flick books, zoetropes and optical illusions
- Character lead immersive workshops using storytelling, magic lanterns and / or camera-less photography.
- Interactive screenings of rarely seen music hall, cabaret and dance films in non-cinema spaces accompanied by live entertainment.
Previous clients include Home Live Art, New Voices Festival and Film Education, for whom we went on tour with in 2009 as part of their National Schools Film Week - visiting the Showroom Cinema (Sheffield), Cinema City (Norwich) and the Glasgow Film Theatre amongst others. Our extremely enjoyable Victorian Cinema Day was first aired in 2010 at a Birmingham school for Film Club. See our workshops page for more details.
We hosted a fantastically spooky photogram workshop at The Ragged School Museum as part of their June 2010 Storytellying Festival with another due for easter 2011.
For more information on Mirror Mirror or to discuss how the above ideas could fit in with an existing programme of activities or collection please contact aymie@mirrormirroreducation.org.
