Colour Box at Home: Sound & Music

The first of our three Colour Box at Home special screenings focuses on all things musical - expect sweet sounds, kaleidoscopic music videos, and a song-and-dance number about how life begins!

THE FULL PROGRAMME CAN BE VIEWED BELOW AND YOU CAN SKIP TO 42:08 FOR THE SECOND PART OF THE PROGRAMME FOR 6+.

FILMS
3+
Sum of its Parts (Alisa Stern, USA 2020) - 3 mins
Island (Robert Löbel, Germany 2018) - 3 mins
Mido and the Instruments (Roman Guillanton, France 2020) - 6 mins
Oh Baby (Meghann Artes, USA 2019) - 8 mins
Rainbow Dance (Len Lye, New Zealand 1936) - 4 mins
Big Block Sing-Song - Hair (Warren Brown and Adam Goddard, Canada 2013) - 2 mins
Wonder (Mirai Mizue, Japan 2014) - 8 mins

6+
Maestro (Illogic, France 2019) - 2 mins
Choir Tour (Edmunds Jansons, Latvia 2012) - 5 mins
Strawberry (Péter Vácz, Hungary 2017) - 2 mins
Herman Brown is Feeling Down (Dan Castro, UK 2018) - 6 mins
The Ballet (Louis Thomas, France 2012) - 4 mins
Orgiastic Hyper Plastic (Paul Bush, UK/Denmark 2020) - 6 mins
Stewpot Rhapsody (Charlotte Cambon de Lavalette, Stéphanie Mercier, Soizic Mouton, Marion Roussel, France 2012) - 3 mins
Slaves of the Rave (William Garratt, UK 2014) - 3 mins
Frog's Song (Violaine Pasquet, France 2016) - 11 mins

Filmic highlights include the brilliant, rhythmical Orgiastic Hyper Plastic about humans’ love affair with plastic, and the Latvian short animation Choir Tour about a young choir that breaks away from their conductor while on tour and then causes mayhem in a hotel.

Remember though, this isn’t your average Colour Box screening. Your accompanying specially-made activity pack will have various fun tasks to undertake, including making your own ‘Courage Trumpet’ to help overcome fears and embarrassment, or discover what a slinky sounds like (and how similar it is to a lightsaber).

How does it work?

The screening itself will be split in two - the first half for ages 3-5, and the second half is geared towards 6+, but there’s nothing to stop you watching it all (and there’s plenty to be enjoyed by adults too!). Regular Colour Box compère Sarah Hamilton Baker will be guiding you through the films and the activity pack.

The films will be available for 48 hours over the weekend 18/19th September, and you can watch as many times as you like over the course of the weekend. You’ll receive a link to the films via email.

What’s in the pack?

A couple of days before Saturday 18th, you will receive your pack which will include an activity book with tasks, experiments, games and more.

A huge thank you to the artists we’ve worked with on the September pack:

One Five West (Anna Horton Cremin & Sophie Bullock);
Shiyi Li;
Lightbox Cinema (Laura Kloss & Mat Bartlett);
Sarah Taylor-Silverwood;
Arabella Simpson.

Tickets are £4 (+ £1 booking fee), but we want to make sure that everyone can enjoy our Colour Box at Home events. If you'd like a pack but don't have the means to buy one (for example if you are unemployed, receive universal credit or your child is eligible for pupil premium) please make use of our free packs.

Tickets must be ordered by Sunday 12th September.

We’re grateful for the support of Arts Council England, Arts Connect,The EH Smith Charitable Trust and The DMF Ellis Charitable Trust.