PROFILE: THE METRONOME
As the first ever Essex International Film Festival draws closer, we thought it was time to highlight some of the fantastic shorts that will be part of this inaugural event.
By Chris Suffield
We Love Movies More Than You
COLCHESTER FILMMAKERS SHORTLISTED FOR ESSEX FILM FESTIVAL
Four Colchester filmmakers have been shortlisted for the inaugural Essex International Film Festival. The festival, which will run from March 27 to March 30, will feature films from all over the world, including those shot in Essex.
By Sophie England
Colchester Gazzette | Essex Count Standard
THE ART DIARY FEBRUARY 2023
“2023 begins in Essex with a focus on female experience and perceptions of life changes, embodiment, and the world around them.”
By Revd Jonathan Evens
Artlyst
THE (UN)HOLY TRINITY AT BIG SCREEN SOUTHEND
“We’re excited to announce that Laura Jean Healey’s The (Un)Holy Trinity will be screened at the Focal Point Gallery.”
By Bolim Jeon
Sedition Magazine
THE (UN)HOLY TRINITY AT ART IN FLUX: RADICAL EMBODIMENT IN BARBICAN
“Laura Jean Healey, a visual artist and filmmaker, presents her acclaimed artwork, The (Un)Holy Trinity at Art in Flux: Radical Embodiment in Barbican, London on 10th November 2022.”
By Bolim Jeon
Sedition Magazine
LAURA JEAN HEALEY’S THE (UN)HOLY TRINITY WINS YICCA ART PRIZE
“Laura Jean Healey’s acclaimed artwork The Un(Holy) Trinity has won the YICCA International Art Prize, an annual contest which celebrates and promotes outstanding contemporary art.”
By Samantha Penn
THE (UN)HOLY TRINITY LAUNCHES ON SEDITION
“Artist and filmmaker Laura Jean Healey has created an ambitious film triptych to celebrate International Women’s Day 2020. The triptych will be launched on Sedition on 8th March…”
By Samantha Penn
DIRECTING THE (UN)HOLY TRINITY: WE CHAT WITH LAURA JEAN HEALEY
“Filmmaker and Directors UK member Laura Jean Healey is creating a large-scale, multi-channel film installation — The (Un)Holy Trinity — to mark International Women’s Day 2020.”
By Chris Young
LAURA JEAN HEALEY EXPLORES FEMALE OBJECTIFICATION THROUGH A BIBLICAL LENS
“The filmmaker’s award-winning project, The Siren, examined mythical female figures. In a further dive into ancient legend, she is inspired by Biblical apocrypha, with her upcoming digital triptych, The (Un)Holy Trinity, showing that the vilification of women is a tale as old as time.”
By Anna McNay
LAURA JEAN HEALEY: THE (UN)HOLY TRINITY
“For International Women’s Day 2020 Laura Jean Healey is producing an ambitious new installation piece, The (Un)Holy Trinity, which explores the notion of the ‘fallen woman’. She is currently seeking crowdfunding support to fully realise the project…”
By Samantha Penn
A Q&A WITH VISUAL ARTIST LAURA JEAN HELEY & ART EDITOR ANNA MCNAY
“Laura Jean Healey is an artist-filmmaker who works with holographic film to produce haunting and powerful pieces, where the presence of the actor is strongly felt in the room with the audience. The Siren (2012), shot underwater in one sequence, is perhaps the most striking of all of her works to date.”
By Anna McNay
UNDERWATER 3D PROJECTION BRINGS SIREN TO LIFE
“It is an optical illusion that has been used to bring Tupac back to life on stage at Coachella, recreate the British seasons for Dunhill's Shanghai fashion show and allowed Dita von Teese to morph from a Christian Louboutin shoe before performing a burlesque before an audience at London's Design Museum.”
By Katie Scott