WORK: Alongside, Dryden Goodwin
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 […]
WORK: People Meeting in a Room, Adam Lewis Jacob
People Meeting in a Room is a work reflecting on collective film making and workers’ activism. Developed over a year, it connects the histories of activists and film makers associated with the Birmingham Trade Union Resource Centre in the 1980s with a group of contemporary collaborators. The contributors interpret archival films and collective actions through […]
WORK: a ROLE to PLAY, Esther Johnson
a ROLE to PLAY brings together a range of contributors who live in Bolsover, one of the most deprived towns in the middle of England, including workers at the Freedom Community Project and former MP Dennis Skinner, to tell their stories of the impact of economic changes brought from post-industrialisation. a ROLE to PLAY is […]
WORK: The Great Bear, Jenny Holt
Made in and around Thrapston, a market town in rural Northamptonshire, The Great Bear explores narratives of labour and landscape in the English Midlands. Historically rural, with a strong farming identity, the area’s close proximity to arterial road networks has sparked a growing logistics economy with an international workforce. Intensified by its focus on the […]