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The Celtic Songlines
Beyond the Dark Mountain
Pasties, People and Politics: Deconstructing the Cornish Identity
Waking Glasney
Kayleigh’s Story: Identity in the Tamar Valley
Under St Piran’s Flag
Archiving Cornwall: South West Film & Television Archive
As Waves Fall: A Poem
1930s Cornish Film
28 April 2024
The Celtic Songlines
David Ian Bickley is an intermedia artist working mainly with landscape and folklore motif.
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28 April 2024
Beyond the Dark Mountain
David Ian Bickley is an intermedia artist working mainly with landscape and folklore motif.
This made-for-television 30-minute film, And Beyond the Dark Mountain, looks at copper mining in West Cork and at its connection with Cornwall’s West Penwith.
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20 June 2020
Pasties, People and Politics: Deconstructing the Cornish Identity
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In 2019 Melissa Watt, a Public History student at Penryn Campus, was on a placement scheme with Cornish Story researching the contemporary and historical significance of the Cornish pasty.
1 November 2015
Waking Glasney
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In May this year (2015), Penryn Arts Festival covered the 750th anniversary of Glasney College. Above is a short film on the project by Shauna Osborne-Dowle along with her accompanying film statement.
1 July 2015
Kayleigh’s Story: Identity in the Tamar Valley
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The Tamar Valley is an outstandingly beautiful area which possesses a rich industrial heritage and fascinating social history. Within this film, the story of the Tamar, both past and present, is recounted through oral testimony and archive film footage. Mining, market gardening, and fishing are some of the local industries that have nurtured kinship ties across the River Tamar. Yet, at the same time, for many people the Tamar exists as the frontier that divides two very different places.
1 May 2015
Under St Piran’s Flag
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Under St. Piran’s Flag is a short documentary film and report of the travels of two students – Kateřina Hassmanová and Lucie Javůrková from the University of Life Sciences Prague in the Czech Republic.
1 May 2015
Archiving Cornwall: South West film & Television Archive
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As part of a series of articles based on the varied Archives held across Cornwall, this is the second feature which focuses on the South West Film & Television Archive.
27 January 2015
As Waves Fall: A Poem
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The poetry of Jenna White is inspired by her love of the Cornish coast. In this article for Cornish Story, Jenna reads her poem ‘As Waves Fall’ set to photographs of St Michael’s Mount by Sarah Chapman.
9 February 2014
1930s Cornish Film
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In mid-2012, the Cornish Audio Visual Archive were given several reels of film dating from the 1930s. They held unique images taken by a man, Cecil Baldwin, who visited Cornwall and Devon on holiday many times in his life. His affection for the South-west shows through in the recovered footage, the full version capturing nearly fifty minutes altogether.