Great Street Games footage
It’s always been difficult capturing our work on camera – the pieces are created to be experienced rather than observed – but it’s especially difficult with a project as challenging as last year’s Great Street Games. On the second and third nights of the performance, I drove up and down between Gateshead, Middlesbrough and Sunderland trying to capture some moments from each venue on camera. That was straightforward enough, but it was when I tried to put together the footage into some kind of meaningful document that I hit a brick wall. I couldn’t work out how to get across both the immediacy of the interaction in an individual venue, and the sense of networked community that was created by the event. So I gave up. But yesterday, I came across this footage again, and decided that the best thing for it was just to put a brief collection of shots together and let it speak for itself. Yes, it’s confusing, requires more explanation, and will probably prompt more questions than it answers: but there it is… If I work out how I really should put together a document from all this footage, I will do so, but until then there’s this on vimeo.