An experimental filmic portrayal exploring derelict spaces, buildings and ruins within Leeds and surrounding areas. The collaborative project aims to explore multidisciplinary processes and find a link between failed visions and urban decay, bringing to light the past and present, challenging the future of these derelict buildings and uncovering their transition in this continual creation of the new Leeds is facing .
Abandoned architecture and space is often seen as metaphorical voice for the fragility of human life, of failed utopia ideologies, and loss of past beliefs. This project will uncover both the sublime and uncanny beauty overlooked within these found spaces and will put forward a different view an attempt to provoke a different assessment of ruined spaces stimulating a critique of contemporary social and cultural processes.
Industrial ruins are often perceived by our capitalist society to be sites of urban disorder, and reflection of a failed society and vision, often demolished and transformed into globalized developments associated with middle class society. We hope to display that by overcoming the discomfort of the failed vision, we can begin to portray the powerful connection between dereliction and beauty and the context in which it exists.
By addressing how the space may resonate within time the project can make connections between politics, art and design history, class, capitalism, and philosophical concepts. The influences that have been researched are broad and considers current, past and future projects within experimental film and urban decay.
