The Debris Field (subtitle ‘Salvaging the Titanic in Word, Sound and Image’) is a multi-media event devised, written and performed by Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Chris McCabe. Our words are wonderfully enhanced and supported by original music from Oli Barrett (of the brilliant Petrels and Bleeding Heart Narrative) and new film from Jack Wake-Walker. Debuted at the BFI South Bank on April 14th 2012, 100 years to the night of the tragedy, the show offers a richly overlapping multi-media experience – a showcasing of five talented individuals, both as solo artists and as partners in collaborative alchemy.…

A Bosnian Chronicle presents life in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina through a series of journeys across the divided country, revealing the richness and complexity of a place that has brought so much tragedy to our time and known so little peace. As in the work of Ivo Andric and his masterwork, Bosnian Chronicle, the film exposes through archive footage and original filming the immense beauty of the dramatic landscape with its eerie hilltop fortresses, alongside and in contrast to the corrupting and divisive machinations of those in power. In so doing, notions of time, the past, history, are shown to be enfolded within the present it created as any attempts to historicise the war in Bosnia, to consider it the…

Sunspots is a poetic, musical, and visual journey from the birth of the Sun, through its long and eventful life, towards its ultimate death. Is the Sun a god, a man, a woman, or simply a giant ball of hydrogen? Why does it tell fibs about its favourite painters? Is the Sun afraid of dying? Does it get depressed? And what does it really think about us, and the solar system it is bound to care for? Simon Barraclough (Poet in Residence at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory) is your guide on a journey that mixes fact, fiction, horror, humour and joy. This hour-long show fuses words, film and songs that vary in style from the infectiously poppy to the…