‘Hands Off Our Homes’ is a short documentary film by four students from the Northern Film School in Leeds. The film details one man’s struggles to keep the house that he has made a home for his family, in an area that he believes is worth fighting for. Geoff Ryecroft’s story points towards the growing gap between the needs of a community and the aims of the council. The consequences of regeneration are complex, widespread, and often disputed. Geoff’s story represents the personal devastation occurring the scenes of a regeneration process which is so often presented to us as wholly positive. Producers : Kathryn Wilson and Ian Pinder Director : Anthony Corby Camera Operator : Mojtaba Yousefipour |
Hands off our homes: Documentary by Kathryn Wilson, Ian Pinder, Anthony Corby and Mojtaba Yousefipour
Lucy Tucker & Tara Atkinson: Collaborative Experimental Video Artists
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 .
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.
Zanna Clarke : Audio Artist
The visual is the commanding sense in the art world and it can often dominate over our other perceptions. By cutting away any visual distraction I am absorbing the viewer in a sound installation that explores the diverse qualities of sound. Abstraction is used to communicate the qualities of the sound; a more literal use of sound can create referential imaging that diverts from such qualities. I want to take the viewer though a sonic experience that disorientates suspends and overwhelms them. Leeds is a vastly growing city and the monopoly of development is constantly changing the face of the city. The sounds used are taken from the everyday construction of the city. The abstraction of sound and manipulation of repetition reflects this monotonous construction.
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