Bluetits follows founder Sian Richardson and early members of the beloved swimming group BlueTits, a now 6,000 strong organisation. A journey of self discovery and pure joie de vivre, Bluetits is a heartwarming and honest celebration of older women and the community that brings them together.

Directed by Katie Burdon

Produced by Cara Mills + Academy Films

Children Of The Stone is a short film by Katie Burdon, a love letter to Bodmin Moor and Allanah Taylor

Directed, Filmed and Edited by Katie Burdon

Performed by Allanah Taylor

Sound Design by Paul Koutselos

Bodmin Moor is part of Cornubian Batholith, a large mass of granite rock formed about 280 million years ago. Walking across this moorland is a mystical experience, time sort of dissolves as your body breathes in the lost history folded into the land. The landscape itself is wild, abstract and fierce - big jagged rocks obstructing out of rolling hills, wind tapered trees whispering Celtic myths and legends, miles and miles of bleak appearing landscape that screams history through its many stone circles, mining shafts and quarries. I often feel that when I am there past, present and future merge into this new (true?) rhythm of life. So often we do not experience this because we are obstructed with clock time, work time, city time - a complete over-analysis and obsession with a quasi rational sense of time? This film that celebrates this piece of land, how it heals my mind and body, how it grounds me and lifts me all at once and most importantly how it plugs me back into life’s true rhythm. To carry out this vision I worked with my best-friend and dancer Allanah Taylor - my sister and soulmate. Being with her gives me the same feeling of grounding that I experience on these moorlands, this ‘true time’. Her connection to nature, and her own mind and body is astounding, infectious and generous, liquid gold and humble. Our love for each other is undeniable, vast and completely unconditional - our friendship is truly one of the reasons why I walk this earth. I don’t, and couldn’t think of my heritage and my home without thinking of her - they are intrinsically tied.