Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual – UNFOLD (Wondering Minds)

About the event

Filmmaking Project Showcases Stories of Mental Health Through Lived Experience
Wondering CIC & WCL Mind present a series of powerful community screenings across London

Wondering CIC, in partnership with WCL Mind, is proud to announce the first public screenings of UNFOLD, a groundbreaking collaborative filmmaking project exploring mental health through lived experience storytelling and biographical film as a tool for therapy.

Running over 14 weeks between March and June 2025, UNFOLD culminated in 11 filmmakers each creating a deeply personal autobiographical short film. Across 18 sessions, participants developed filmmaking skills while using creativity as a therapeutic outlet. The films reflect resilience and identity offering fresh perspectives on mental health.

The project is part of Wondering CIC’s regenerative model, where participants are supported to return the following year to mentor others and access freelance opportunities — creating sustainable pathways into the creative industries.

This event will take place in the Kodak Theatre, University of Westminster Harrow Campus

IMAGES

1 – 3 – Images from Wondering Minds filmmaking workshops
4 – 6 – Images from UNFOLD films

About Wondering Minds

Wondering CIC is a community interest company using storytelling, filmmaking, and art as interventions for health, wellbeing, and social change. By putting cameras into the hands of people with lived experience, Wondering CIC empowers individuals to own their stories, build skills, and create authentic films that shift perspectives on mental health.

Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual

Each breath is a new possibility of life. Inhalation and exhalation as cycles of existence. Air is also the catalytic substance of ignition; it represents the power of utterance; declaration, song, whistles, chants, spells, of mobilising ideas and knowledge, people and animals. The intangible, invisible force that creates changes in culture, education, legal systems, religion and ideologies.

AIR Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled “Bones, stones, and calling the four elements”, it seeks to invoke a communal spirit of gathering and imagining. Between June to October 2025 four ‘rituals’, WATER (22 June), EARTH (24 July – 1 August) FIRE (26 September – 12 October) and AIR (17 -24 October) will unfold at four Brent sites – a public reservoir, a park, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough — Harrow, Wembley and Kilburn — the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops, talks, performance and exhibition.