{"id":10137,"date":"2021-05-12T16:16:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=10137"},"modified":"2021-05-12T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:16:14","slug":"a-role-to-play-screens-at-the-67-the-international-short-film-festival-oberhausen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/a-role-to-play-screens-at-the-67-the-international-short-film-festival-oberhausen\/","title":{"rendered":"‘a ROLE to PLAY’ screens at the 67 The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen"},"content":{"rendered":"
A film shot in Bolsover by\u00a0Esther Johnson,<\/a> <\/b>Professor of Film and Media Arts, screened on Saturday 8th May at the prestigious\u00a0International Short Film Festival Oberhausen<\/a><\/b><\/span>\u00a0@kurzfilmoberhausen, Germany, one of the oldest short film festivals in the world. The film is distributed by\u00a0ARGOS Centre for art and media<\/a><\/b>\u00a0<\/b>in Brussels\u00a0@argos_arts\u00a0and will screen in a programme of a selection of works from their collection.<\/div>\n
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Newham Trades Council online film screening flyer<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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a ROLE to PLAY<\/b><\/a>\u00a0brings together a range of contributors who live in Bolsover, one of the most deprived towns in the middle of England, including workers and volunteers at the Freedom Community Project and Food bank @freedomproj , and former MP Dennis Skinner, to tell their stories of the impact of economic changes brought from post-industrialisation.<\/div>\n
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The film experiments with methods of co-creation, radical documentary theatre and oral testimony, with project participants storytelling privileged over the questioning\/answering scenario of traditional documentary. The title echoes the participatory film process, and also the roles everyone takes in their working and non-working lives.<\/p>\n

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Serena by Esther Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n

Made in direct response to the increasing numbers of unemployment and zero-hour contracts across the UK, the film explores the realities and struggles that some residents of Bolsover have encountered in gaining and sustaining employment amidst the town\u2019s post-mining legacy of deindustrialisation.<\/p>\n

We hear the lived experiences and dreams of town residents including Dennis Skinner who remembers in terms of starting in parliament, “1970. I got elected, and six o\u2019clock the day after I went to work. I didn\u2019t have two ha\u2019pennies to rub together. I hadn\u2019t got a bank account. I hadn\u2019t got a car. I went to work because I didn\u2019t know when I was going to get paid in Parliament. Nobody sent me a letter saying turn up on such and such a day. I just had to keep looking in the papers to see when swearing in started. So I kept going to the pit.’<\/p>\n

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Dennis Skinner by Esther Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The film was made as part of\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/workprojects.org.uk<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>with @animateprojectsuk and partnering with @junctionartsuk @vividprojectsuk @derbyquad + @fermynwoods. The film was also featured in celebration of May Day in a special screening in partnership with #NewhamTradesCouncil\u00a0<\/span>www.newhamtradescouncil.org<\/a>\u00a0on 1 May.<\/div>\n
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A film shot in Bolsover by\u00a0Esther Johnson, Professor of Film and Media Arts, screened on Saturday 8th May at the prestigious\u00a0International Short Film Festival Oberhausen\u00a0@kurzfilmoberhausen, Germany, one of the oldest short film festivals in the world. The film is distributed by\u00a0ARGOS Centre for art and media\u00a0in Brussels\u00a0@argos_arts\u00a0and will screen in a programme of a selection of works from their collection. 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