FILM

Below is a small collection of films created for conferences and gallery spaces. Many more are available on the Vimeo channel HERE or YouTube HERE. Unfortunately the films On Beauty, On Belonging and The Grand Tour which relate to Clive’s work around dementia and human imagination, cannot be posted openly online. If you are interested in seeing these works, please get in touch. His film-making is evolving, and from the early cut-up work that paid gentle homage to Adam Curtis, his newer work is more poetic in form, utilising mobile phone footage and embracing wider environmental health. He is currently working with found domestic cine film exploring unknown others, discarded silent stories. Over 2023/24, Clive will be sharing this work which includes numerous stories of the anonymous, alongside work being developed with the writer Jenn Ashworth and material responding to Dennis Potter.

the extraordinary (2022)
A film created for the Create.Connect.Unwind Festival curated by LIME Arts in May 2022 exploring the significant part that LIME play in the arts/health/social change agenda across Greater Manchester in politically toxic times.

SEDATIVE OR STIMULANT (2021)
A sound, film and spoken word keynote created for the Culture, Health & Wellbeing International Conference 2021. 

UNTETHERED (2021)
A short film made to run alongside a spoken piece of work for Arts and Mental Health: Facing the Future, a research symposium hosted by Norwich University of the Arts.

A GENTLE HAUNTING (2020)
A short film created for the New South Wales arts festival and conference, ArtState for Vic McEwan’s exploration — 'One for Sorrow...' in November 2020. 

COLD DARK MATTER (2019)
Asked to deliver an eight minute 'provocation' for the launch of The Age of Creativity festival at the Whitworth Gallery in May 2019, I created this small performative piece. Its bleak message didn’t go down too well with the mostly elderly audience, but for me, it’s something I reveled in both making and sharing.

A DELICATE ECOLOGY (2018)
In November 2018 I gave the keynote at the national conference of Engage, the lead advocacy and training network for gallery education in the UK. The event, called A Social Prescription explored the intersection between arts, health, wellbeing and education and challenged the governments thinking and assumptions around social prescribing. It was held at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.

CRITICAL CARE - TEASER (2017)
Working with Australian artist, Vic McEwan as part of an arts and health residency in the UK at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, I wrote the book Critical Care as a participant observer to his creative process. This teaser preempted a larger performative work under the same title

DIS/ORDERED - A TASTER (2017)
A performative presentation for The Big Anxiety Festival at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art. The full event is not available online, because of the sensitive nature of material used. A performance-presentation, dis/ordered explored Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), questioning labels used by psychiatry to what may in fact, be a legitimate responses to the chaos of life.

WEAPONS OF MASS HAPPINESS - TEASER (2016)
A short teaser for the un-filmed performative keynote at ARTLANDS Festival/Conference in DUBBO NSW, Australia. This was later written up as the book chapter ‘Weapons of Mass Happiness: Social justice and health equity in the context of the arts’. In: Music, Health, and Wellbeing: Exploring Music for Health Equity and Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan

ALL THE TIME THE BUZZING (2015)
A film to accompany my presentation to the 7th International Arts of Good Health & Wellbeing Conference at the Arts Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney in November 2015. Subsequently written up with extensive revisions in - Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing, (Bloomsbury, 2017). Frustratingly - and due to copyright issues - a small section of this film, with Richard Burton narration, is silent.

A RECOVERIST MANIFESTO (2014)
This short film accompanies the text of A Recoverist Manifesto (2014), a collective work bringing together the voices of people recovering from substance use in Italy, Turkey and the UK. It stems from the shared belief that ‘addiction’ may not be the criminalised health issue it is frequently portrayed as, but rather, a cultural and civil rights issue. (A download of the manifesto in English and Turkish will be available here shortly)

FICTION-NON-FICTION - TEASER (2013)
First thoughts on evidence, control and authenticity. Just who is it who steers arts/health and who decides how we understand the impact of our work? The full keynote was performed at the Arts Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, November 2013.

FCnK - TEASER (2012)
An early film outing preceding a commissioned essay for Public Art Online. The essay (available here) was a gentle critique of Olympic year and the happiness industry in a time of austerity and so much more.