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Thank you so much @wo50ff - delighted for Intermittent & Continuous’ Best Documentary award! 🏆

Director, producer, camera, editor, sound design: @oliviahird
Executive producers: @northernheartfilms & @lea_hejn
Location sound recordist: @georgephilipblake
Additional camera: @maxenceewers
Edit assistant: @jsurridge
Original composition: @simonpittmusic
Sound Mix & Colour Grade: @sticksandglass @darthgrader_colour
Graphics & Titles: @sourcecreative
Editing facilities: @granada_centre_manchester Commissioned by: @northernheartfilms
Supported by: @sheffdocfest @sticksandglass @wigancouncil @creativelancs @olympicstudios @leighfilmfactory by @oliviahird

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11 days ago

[ANNOUNCEMENT] 📣

Flatland is delighted to present on the occasion of the Bexhill Art Weekender ‘Not repeat as in replicate, repeat as in ritual’, a film screening of 3 moving images works curated by Olivia Du Vergier. Screening at Flatland Projects 15th & 16th August 2026, 11:00-16:00.

Featuring (in image order): ‘Intermittent and Continuous’ (2025) Olivia Hird; ‘Like Dadima Like Smriti’ (2019), Smriti Mehra; & ‘The ghost of Mr. Bawky’ (2025) Esther Carlin.

In the space that contains your absence, where patterns repeat. Retrace your steps, walk the
same route, remember every turn, hold the remnants in your hands, pick them up, bear their
weight, feel their form, turn them over again and again, put them back, store them away,
find them again one day.

In all three of the films featured in this programme, we find repetition woven with memory. Repeated words, sounds, gestures, habits. A father and daughter revisit old material, piecing together a shared story. A granddaughter weighs up her inheritance. A woman moves through a vast landscape, blending past and present as she listens. Through the redoing comes a new doing.
In the space that contains your absence, where patterns repeat. Not repeat as in replicate, repeat as in ritual.

Olivia Hird is a self-shooting filmmaker, facilitator and researcher, bridging creative and care-based approaches, working across nonfiction film and community mental health. Trained in visual anthropology, Olivia’s practice is guided by personal stories that explore how people relate to place, time, themselves and each other. Her films have been screened at BAFTA and BIFA qualifying festivals.
Olivia has taught at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester (2025), worked as Production Manager for Open City Documentary Festival (UCL), participated in the HOME Artist Film Lab (2022), HOME Artist Lab (2024) and the Sheffield DocFest Filmmaker Challenge (2026).

@bexhillartweekender @delawarr

Smriti Mehra is an artist and educator from Bangalore, India, based in London. Working primarily with moving image, alongside photography and installation, her practice explores memory, identity, labour, material cul taken in FLATLAND_projects by @oliviahird

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2 months ago

It is done! 🎊

Chuffed to have participated in the @sheffdocfest Filmmaker Challenge - and, a challenge, it was! with a week to secure access, research and develop, 24hrs to film, 10hrs to edit.

Grateful to have had 11 wonderful filmmakers to go on the ride alongside & pleased with the joyful nugget of a film that emerged from it 🪩

Big thank you’s to @sheffdocfest for facilitating the Filmmaker Challenge, @primevideo as principal sponsor, @sticksandglass for post-production support, @audionetwork for the tunes, @abitimminsdop for the swish shooting and @alexthomasfilms for kindly mentoring 🙏 by @oliviahird

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4 months ago

Very excited to have been selected to participate in this year’s @sheffdocfest Filmmaker Challenge alongside a bunch of wonderful filmmakers!

Over the past month, we’ve been cracking on with making a 3 minute doc. Come and see the results on Saturday 10am at @showroom_cinema 🍿

Sponsored by @primevideo
With support from @sticksandglass @audionetwork and @sheffhallamuni by @oliviahird

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4 months ago

🔥 @bfifilmacademy X NORTHERN HEART FILMS 🔥

We are so excited to be running a bespoke screening and documentary workshop for the BFI Film Academy participants next week.

We'll be talking about championing authentic Northern voices and creating pathways for working class talent in the documentary world, showcasing the films we've funded via our Northern Doc Fund.

See you there! Let's talk craft, career, and the power of Northern storytelling.

#BFIFilmAcademy #NorthernHeartFilms #HOMEmanchester #DocumentaryFilm #NorthernDocs #FilmAcademy #Filmmaking #DocSociety #FindingAppiness taken in HOME Mcr by @oliviahird

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a year ago

Pleased to share that INTERMITTENT & CONTINUOUS has its world premiere at the BAFTA-qualifying @boltonfilmfest this weekend.

A huge thank you to all those involved - especially to Rita, for her time and trust.

Sat 4th Oct 18.20 at @lightcinema_bolton cinema. Would love to see you there! 🎞️

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Director, producer, camera, editor, sound design: @oliviahird

Executive producers:
@northernheartfilms & @lea_hejn

Location sound recordist:
@georgephilipblake

Additional camera:
@maxenceewers

Edit assistant:
@jsurridge

Original composition:
@simonpittmusic

Sound Mix & Colour Grade:
@sticksandglass
@darthgrader_colour

Graphics & Titles:
@sourcecreative

Editing facilities:
@granada_centre_manchester

Commissioned by:
@northernheartfilms

Supported by:
@sheffdocfest
@sticksandglass
@wigancouncil
@creativelancs
@olympicstudios
@leighfilmfactory by @oliviahird

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a year ago

A thoroughly enjoyable few weeks assistant teaching on the @granada_centre_manchester ‘s Ethnographic Documentary Filmmaking course 🎥

A brilliant bunch of students and the dreamiest team @alexandra.donofrio & @thomaslongstaff 🫶 taken in Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology: University of Manchester by @oliviahird

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a year ago

We are now presenting you a film from our STUDENTS PLATFORM:

INTERTIDAL (2024) by Marina Espinach & Olivia Hird contemplates the human and more-than-human encounters generated by the coastline’s ever-shifting formations. Swipe to see the full synopsis.

On SUN, 1 JUNE | 14:00
The film will be screened in Program VI of our Students’ Platform. Marina Espinach & Olivia Hird will join us for a film talk at the cinema. Film and discussion will also be live-streamed.

Join us at @koki_freiburg or via live stream. The full program is available on our homepage.

Stay tuned for updates!

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#filmforum2025 #transculturalcinema #filmfestival #filmoftheday #visualanthropology #ethnographicfilm #freiburgerfilmforum #freiburg #culturalanthropology #anthropology #ethnologie #film #documentary by @oliviahird

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a year ago

Snaps from a fun summer working on my first commissioned doc at a cement works and quarry site in the Peak District. Thank you @northernheartfilms 🩶

INTERMITTENT & CONTINUOUS is a small film about a big noise; about sound and listening, and about how the past has a way of inserting itself into our present through the senses.

It’s been a rocky + wonderful ride, and it’s oh so nearly across the finish line! Here are some notes from the field in the meantime 🌬️ taken in Hope Cement by @oliviahird

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2 years ago

Nice nice scenes from the past few months

1-3. Bamford 14/02/23
4-5. @plattfields_marketgarden Wassail ceremony 21/01/23
6-7. Fletcher Moss gardens - day of freedom after the essay slog 20/01/23
8-9. Flamborough Head 01/01/23
10. Robin Hood’s Bay 02/01/23 by @oliviahird

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4 years ago

taken in Three Cliffs Bay, Gower Peninsular, Wales by @oliviahird

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5 years ago

taken in St Leonards Beach by @oliviahird

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6 years ago