Becalelis Brodskis | Role

My love for doodling, drawing and listening to people turned into the making  of animations and documentaries. Before making films I was a traditional stonecarver. Born in 1968 in London but brought up moving across Europe and Morocco.  In 2009 I moved to Cornwall and became interested in the symbolism of climbing and digging. Here, with my children, I have begun to lay some roots.

My films have received international acclaim at prestigious festivals such as Sundance, Annecy and Oberhausen. With a love for helping other people bring their ideas to life, I have taught and led departments at leading universities and delivered interdisciplinary creative workshops, outside of formal education, in the UK, Europe, Africa and South America.

In 2015 I produced Re-Imagine Your Town, one of the first community mapping projects that incorporated game engine technology, lidar data and VR to enable residents to create their own interactive map of their town. This led to PhD research with Transtechnology at Pymouth University.

The research is about the unsaid political agenda of mapping and forms of community consultation which often fail to include marginalised voices. My aim is to address this through a creative use of mapping, that includes the real and imagined landscape,  for communities to visualise and express their sense of place.