FfilmSchool (FfS) is an experimental documentary education project exploring what happens if filmmaking education is remade to centre mental, social, and environmental wellbeing. With its first edition in the Dyfi, Cymru, it brings together artists, activists, and researchers to co-create films that reimagine relationships between humans, technologies, and the living world. Each iteration of FfilmSchool investigates what it means to make films without reproducing extractivist logics—centring care, reciprocity, and shared authorship instead.
Developed from research by James R Price at Aberystwyth and Bristol Universities, FfilmSchool works at the intersection of art, research, and political ecology. Its practice is grounded in the belief that filmmaking education can be a laboratory for building post-extractivist futures: where cameras are carriers for gathered rushes, editing is reimagined as braiding, and learning unfolds through reciprocal exchange.