The Human Frame
My work, as an actor and human rights campaigner, sits at the crossroads of human rights and the arts, exploring how creativity can reveal the deeper truths of what it means to be human. Through The Human Frame, I bring together artists, activists, and thinkers to explore how performance can become a form of resistance, empathy, and change.
The Human Frame
Directing Disruption: Fay Beck on I XXXX My Sex Doll, the Politics of Art and Making Films That Bite
In this thought-provoking episode of The Human Frame, Łucja sits down with Fay Beck, a filmmaker, director, and founder of Beck Academy of Dramatic Art and Aberrant Gene Films, and acting coach whose work pushes against the boundaries of performance, embodiment, and artistic resistance.
Fay reflects on her unexpected journey from science into filmmaking and how this nonlinear path shaped her distinctive approach to acting and directing. She shares the evolution of her signature acting techniques, rooted in emotional precision, physical awareness, and the mechanics of the human body, and how these tools support actors in accessing truthful, grounded performances.
Together, they explore:
✨ The intersections of science, art, and embodied storytelling
✨ Developing acting techniques that merge emotional awareness with physical control
✨ The making of her film I XXX My Sex Doll and its interrogation of societal expectations
✨ The role of discomfort, disruption, and risk in artistic practice
✨ Art as resistance in a cultural moment marked by conformity
✨ Fay’s hopes for future work that challenges, questions, and refuses to fit neatly into the expected
A conversation for filmmakers, performers, and anyone who believes art should unsettle, provoke, and expand the frame.
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🔗 Fay's Instagram, Beck Academy of Dramatic Art courses and Aberrant Gene Films.
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Host: Łucja Hawking
Music: Yago Cardalda