Indy Calland is a freelance curator, producer and creative researcher engaging with contemporary culture through moving image, exhibitions, public programming and design. She was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa and is based in London, United Kingdom.

RUSHES is a curatorial research project rethinking the making-public of film and moving-image works. Focusing on “rushes” – raw, unedited footage – it foregrounds creative intimacy, experimentation, and care often erased by institutional, market, and socio-political pressures. The project reactivates these materials, and even finished works, as living, reconfigurable media, using experimental, participatory, and hybrid display strategies to foster dialogue, agency, and resistance, while creating spaces for filmmakers to rethink, reframe, and test their works with new contexts, audiences, and modes of engagement.

[This research is in process. If this interests you, or speaks to your research, artistic or curatorial practice, please reach out so we can share resources and explore potential collaborations.]