Kim Noce & Dominica Harrison
Co-Creation: A Shared Process of Storytelling
How and where films are made shape who is included, what stories emerge, and why they matter. Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin (1998), we explore storytelling as a flexible vessel that evolves in response to what it holds. Co-creation expands authorship, ensuring films are collective inquiries. As Freire (1970) argues, knowledge is formed through dialogue and practice, making filmmaking a shared space of meaning-making, ethics, and responsibility.
Haraway (2016) frames storytelling as confabulation, shaped by relationships rather than singular authorship. In filmmaking, this shifts the creative process into something non-hierarchical. Seek and Hide (2019) demonstrates this through blind storytelling, where each artist animated without knowing the full narrative, fostering meaning through shared interaction.
In the workshop, participants will experiment with an outdoor storyboarding technique to co-create a short sequence. We will explore how En-Plein-Air (ExEd24, 2024) environments alter co-creative storytelling. The session concludes by reflecting on alternative co-creation models, such as Anima Mundi (2024), which interweaves multiple perspectives within a shared thematic frame.
This proposal invites discussion on co-creation as an educational and ethical practice, preparing the next generation of filmmakers to engage meaningfully with cinema’s transformative power.
Kim Noce is an Irish and Italian an immersive maker based in the UK, specializing in animation. She holds an MA in Animation from the NFTS/RCA. Her work has been showcased at over 500 international film festivals and exhibited in art galleries worldwide. Kim has collaborated with prominent clients, including the BBC, Channel 4, TATE, National Portrait Gallery, and the Barbican. Notable films include Love-in-Idleness (2016), and Cities of Ladies (2022). She currently serves as the Course Leader for MA Animation at the University of the Arts London (UAL).
www.kimnoce.com