anton hecht is an english artist born in london in 2007 he asked musicians from around the durham area to contribute to a soundtrack for a film in 2005 he was one of seven artists involved in a project to recreate the cumbrian town of whitehaven in legohis film blinking ballet made with old people using morphing technology has been screened at the gateshead interchange metro station a poetry film made with children from shotton colliery was shown at the royal festival halls poetry international 2000 festival an early poetry film called i am romeo 1996 featured in a british film institute touring poetry show reel he has exhibited a multimedia film at the myles meehan gallery in the darlington arts centre and has delivered workshops as part of architecture week he is currently making a work where many people play individual notes a recent narrative film motivation for the uk film council is part of the british council national touring scheme he has also written and directed a number of theatre works that incooperate video with live performance such as rescued by rover at winsford art gallery and having my pretty at hull screen and his theatre work wrestling shakespeare where hamlet goes world federationperhaps now his most successful film work is the trolley dance made with old people in darlington over 50000 people viewed it on youtube and it was featured on the website of a national newspaper another work using members of the local community with no playing experience to create a visual musical piece was called one note band sometimes called the spirits i have called and variations this also was a featured video on youtube and received a lot of web support as well as being shown in european festivals a new work has been commissioned for the angle of the north celebrations and is to be projected besides the landmark piece of sculpture the work is a poetry film where people pose as the letters in and about the streets of gateshead1 a collaboration with film maker richard lawson on a short called developed has been shortlisted for the project direct competition on youtube 2 he has recently been commissioned to make a work for the capture scheme run by the film council and a tv channel this work was bewick court a musical which received wide media attention and a premiere at the baltic art gallery in newcastle 3