Artistic commissions
Dockers: The Last Shift
31min.
A collaboration with the last generation of Avonmouth dockers who saw the first cargo container arrived. The film focuses on the dockers work conditions and the privatisation of the the port in 1991.
During the last dockers’ reunion, where more than hundred current and former port workers meet to maintain their solidarity rights.
The film uses interviews, as well as archival photographs and film footage collected by IC Visual Lab during a series of open days.
I am a Boat
10min.
14 children from year six at Shirehampton Primary School spent a week working with artist Rachael Clerke & Bristol Photo Festival, thinking and playing around the subjects of shipping and globalisation. They visited the nearby Port of Bristol at Avonmouth & Portbury, created ship and port alter-egos, and invented a global shipping game where they transported grain, cars, crockery and more around the world (gym hall).
knowing by heart
12min.
Collaboration between movement artist Kit Hall, Holly Black and the women of Avonmouth Community Centre. Weaving living movement portraits to remember each of the women’s individual expressions and repeated movements during life and work in Avonmouth, as a celebration of their lives. The work is commissioned by IC Visual Lab.