Meet Lucy Barker - Film Maker "Portal"

Lucy Barker is an experienced producer, filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist who is a specialist in facilitating community projects and 360° VR Film work.

Lucy has worked closely with Ascendance over the past 3 years with their “Dance with Parkinson’s” groups where she introduced working in VR, documenting the groups rehearsal and creative explorations.

The new film "Portal, features experimental rehearsal footage, taken across Saltaire's World heritage locations, which captures the group's creative journey towards a VR arts trail project, which sadly had to be halted when the Pandemic took hold.

Lucy has worked on a Trans-European project LUCity (Slovenia) to create an outdoor light installation, co-produced with disadvantaged young people, The Brick Box (Bradford) to devise a large scale outdoor photographic work, made with elders from the Bradford area, Instant Dissidence (internationally touring) who she has worked with over many years and most recently to create a film as part of ID’s ‘Dancing with Strangers: from Calais to England project, the National Institute for Health Research to coproduce a series of animations with a group of young people with severe neurodisability and University of York to co-produce award winning animation "Breaking Through."

She regularly works on co-produced creative projects, sometimes within sensitive contexts, such as with refugee groups, intergenerational groups, dancers, dance students and people with disabilities. Through her projects she strives to offer fresh perspectives that inspire audiences and participants to make positive personal and social change.

Follow the link to her web-site below..