Alongside is a closely observed portrait of a care worker as he builds supportive relationships with three vulnerable clients with severe physical disabilities or autism. The need to observe, decipher and translate, are mirrored in the filmmaking process as Goodwin combines drawing, camera and sound in his inquiry into proximity and empathy. Alongside is part of WORK: four artists’ films that explore contemporary working lives in the middle of England, by Dryden Goodwin, Jenny Holt, Esther Johnson, and Adam Lewis Jacob. Made in Derby, Thrapston, Birmingham and Bolsover, the WORK films consider: the rhythms of a care worker’s day; traditional and new rural working lives – farming, forestry, and international logistics; Birmingham’s Trade Union Resource Centre film archive and collective activism; untold stories of the impact on individual lives of post-industrial economic change. Developed and produced over two years, WORK is a collaboration between: Animate Projects; QUAD, Derby; Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Thrapston, Northamptonshire; Vivid Projects, Birmingham; and Junction Arts, Chesterfield. WORK is supported by Jerwood Arts and using public funding by Arts Council England.