#EP19 Kibwe Tavares

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In this episode Ben talks to the brilliant Kibwe Tavares. He is the co-founder and film director at the fantastic studio Factory 15. Kibwe won the RIBA silver award winning university project; Robots of Brixton, and he has gone on the build Factory 15 up to 12 people and directed awesome short films such as Jonah and ANA as well as architectural films. Listen to hear all about how Factory 15 started and what he has been up to!

 
Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London's new robot workforce - robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline. The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981. With Support from Kibwe Tavares - Direction, animation, modeling, lighting, texturingetc... David Hoffman - Photographer Brixton riots http://archive.hoffmanphotos.com/ Mourad Bennacer - Sound Designer http://designsonore.tumblr.com/ DJ Hiatus "The Great Insurrection" www.hiatusmusic.net For more supercool projects www.factoryfifteen.com
 

Robots of Brixton…

The 2011, Kibwe Tavers won the RIBA Presidents Medal Silver award while at UCL for his project which focused around an allegorical world where the robots might represent the future migration in the UK.

JONAH

Kibwe Tavares’ company, Factory Fifteen developed the short film Jonah, which was presented at the Sundance film festival as well as being backed by the BFI National Lottery and Film4 Shorts.

 
FILM4, BFI & SHINE PRESENT JONAH Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way. A Stray Bear Production in association with Jellyfish Pictures From the imagination of Factory Fifteen Directed by Kibwe Tavares Written by Jack Thorne Produced by Ivana MacKinnon Starring Daniel Kaluuya Malachi Kirby and Louis Mahoney Town VFX: Factory Fifteen Fish VFX: Jellyfish Pictures Executive Producers - Katherine Butler, Ollie Madden, Chris Collins, Phil Dobree, Eva Yates Co-Producer Fiz Oliver Line Producer – Sarah Jane Wheale Editor - Adam Biskupski Cinematographer - Chloe Thomson Production Designer: Paul Nicholls and Jonathan Gales Fish Concept Art – Warren Holder Composer – Mark Sayfritz Sound Design - Jens Petersen Sound Recordist – Will Whale Costume Designer– Celia Lusted Casting Directors – Saheen Baig & Aisha Walters
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