Thanks to Mike for this …
Ian Wiblin, who hails from Abingdon, is to visit Abingdon’s local film club on Februray 22 to present The View from our House, which he co-directed with Anthea Kennedy. The film, made in 2013, is a thoughtful, engrossing and quietly moving ‘film essay’ based in part on the memories, unsent letters and notebooks of a young Jewish woman who lived in 1930s Berlin, and then fled to the UK, where she became a successful photographer.
The film was shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and at venues, including the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and at the Liverpool ‘Look15’ International Festival of Photography.
Ian Wiblin, in addition to his film work, has exhibited work internationally as a photographer over many years. He is currently a lecturer on film and photography at the University of South Wales.
The event is at 7.45pm on February 22nd at the Abingdon Health and Wellbeing Centre, Audlett Drive, Abingdon OX14 3GD. Admission is £6 (£3 full time students).
To contact ABCD for a copy of the programme, email info@abfilms.org.uk or phone 01235 521976/522163. The website with full details is www.abfilms.org.uk.
Oh how I wish someone would make a film about Abingdon today? I despair, over the past two days I’ve made five attempts to drive into town from south Abingdon and each time, after queuing for over half an hour in stationary traffic either on the Wharf of Drayton rd, I gave up and went home. However, needing to do so I finally made it via Ock Bridge, stopping to ask why the road works at the crossing we’re taking so long and why it couldn’t be done at night? The reply was OCC won’t pay for extra labour or out of hours working, Abingdon is grid locked, yet again and business must be loosing thousands !
I think you’ll find dd, whilst we continue to pat ourselves on the back for having lovely flowers….. we’ll not be able to start tackling any of the real issues.
I’ve only been in Abingdon for 15years now, and there isn’t one substantial issue that is any better now than it was then; in fact some are worse.
How’s this for an example….
There was a real, erudite, practical solution to alleviate the double roundabout traffic…to build a left filter from Drayton Rd towards McDs. However, one-up-manship, political point scoring and an inability to serve the community meant that the MG Garden was built on the possible location for such a solution.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Imagine…the ‘dead space’ at the McD roundabout beside the Travelodge/care home would have been truly ripe….a veritable quick win to build a jet lane for traffic at this roundabout to merge more efficiently towards Tesco from Town. Imagine the excitement when the euros there the past couple of weeks started! Common sense prevail, they were actually doing this very thing…!…oh, hold on. No. Actually, they aren’t…. And now any hope of such a solution is again scuppered for the future.
No doubt the best traffic planners in the country deemed it a no-go.
OCC said the moving of the Marcham Rd crossing would alleviate the traffic on Drayton Rd. Someone got it wrong. Please can we sue someone or at least get a refund?
But hey, the winter blooms really are pretty….
I think that with politicians, their functionaries and consultants there is no such things as ‘unforeseen circumstances’ as this would imply that there were ‘foreseen circumstances’ …there’s just the dead hand of ineptitude.
They can always rely on their conspiracy of incompetence for mutual support.