Ashton Blyth
Mother Study
Today we had a visiting artist session from Matt Edwards, one of the technicians at CSM. It is because of this session that I've decided...
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Ashton Blyth
Ashton Blyth
May 5, 2022
A research day in London
I started off the day with Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child at The Hayward Gallery. I'd known about this exhibition coming to London for...
Ashton Blyth
Jan 26, 2022
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)
Overall take from film - use of lighting and music throughout to direct the audience's attention, look at how I can use music within my...
Ashton Blyth
Jan 18, 2022
Bibliography
Books Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard - Alex Bertie Bertie, A. (2017) Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard Performative Acts and Gender...
Ashton Blyth
Jan 10, 2022
A Place in the Middle (Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson, 2014)
In the Hawaiian language, kāne means "male" and wahine means "female". But ancient Hawaiians recognised that some people are not simply...
Ashton Blyth
Dec 20, 2021
Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
Like flipping through another person's family photos, Boyhood is both intriguing and gripping, yet also drags a bit at times. What may...
Ashton Blyth
Dec 8, 2021
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
Firstly, some observations from the film: Just as much detail in the background as the foreground Strong, black, defining outlines...
Ashton Blyth
Nov 10, 2021
Visual Development in Film with Ralph Eggleston
As part of SPARK Animation Festival 2021, which I was fortunate enough to be a part of, they had a series of Masterclass talks - this...
Ashton Blyth
Nov 7, 2021
Human Measure
This weekend I went to the exhibition Cassils: Human Measure, the trans masculine artist's first UK solo show and 10-year survey curated...
Ashton Blyth
Oct 13, 2021
Kapaemahu (Dean Hamer, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu and Joe Wilson, 2020)
Kapaemahu is the short, Oscar-nominated animation that tells the true story of the four individuals, of dual male and female spirit, who...
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