wolf + water arts company

A short film inspired by Coleridge’s ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner made with a whole range of community groups as we cycled across Somerset last september.

Twice a year children in treatment from the Royal Devon & Exeter & Plymouth Derriford Hospitals, along with siblings & other family members make the journey to remote North Devon for a wild weekend of creativity & adventure provided by Wolf + Water.

During 2003 we were invited by a group of adults with learning difficulties to come & help them make a video about the government’s “Valuing People” white paper, which is the document which sets out how people with learning difficulties should be treated by the services that serve them & society in general.

An hour long film made with teenagers who have or have had cancer & leukemia & who wanted to create a film about their experiences that might help other young people in a similar position. Covering all aspects of the illness, from diagnosis, through treatment, through the effects on family & personal lives & through to recovery…or sometimes death - & reflecting on how the experience has changed them profoundly.

When Wolf + Water were commissioned by the Devon Domestic Violence Joint Services Taskforce to create a video & education pack on domestic violence & healthy relationships for 8 – 10 year olds, we knew exactly who we wanted to work with. Back in 2002 we ran the “Romeo & Juliet Project” looking at issues of inter personal conflict with young people from Bradley Rowe School on the Burnt House Lane estate in Exeter…& we wanted to go back & do some more…!

Here are links to three clips from our film, “Running with the Pack”, which documents one of our weekend drama workshops for children with life-threatening illnesses.

A weekly Arts & video magazine project based at North Devon District Hospital.

A collaboration with Effervescence Theatre, this project worked with 4 teenage lads from Treliske Hospital to create a film on their experiences of having Muscular Dysthrophy, including issues spanning bullying, stairs, discrimination & people who don’t have disabilities using disabled parking spaces…

(1998 - Highbridge House CRU and Great Torrington School)

Macbeth was one of Wolf + Water’s biggest ever projects to produce, a full length 16mm film adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Scottish Play” made in Devon without the aid of kilts.

(South Molton North Devon, 1995)

a twelve week series of sessions working with a youth group to create a drugs education video for the Youth Service & Health Education Authority. Using drama, the group explored the pluses & minuses of drug use & abuse (both illegal & legal substances), in order to take the informed debate that they had as part of this project on to a wider youth audience as part of a peer education programme.