Our Future Our Past, Whisper It To Me

Our Future Our Past, Whisper It To Me, 2024, 60min, Commissioned by Cement Fields as part of This Must be the Place

Synopsis: Our future our past, whisper it to me is written by, and features local residents of North Kent, who deliver spoken word poetry to camera to express their sense of belonging, home, and their thoughts on the future of the area as it undergoes a period of rapid regeneration. Their powerful performances are captured against the shifting rural and industrial landscapes, the swaths of new build housing, and epic views out across the Thames Estuary.

An intergenerational discussion, the film looks at the concerns facing post Brexit, post pandemic society in the UK. Told through often marginalised voices the participants are given creative agency to represent their thoughts and feelings as old meets new, and imaginations are encouraged to run free.

Screened at: London Short Film Festival, BLOC Queen Marys, London, TACO!, Braziers International Film Festival Installed at: Gravesend Library, Ebbsfleet International Station

Commission details: the film was commissioned by Cement Fields as part of their This must be the place, the film was screened  & Installed in public venues throughout North Kent

Credits

Director: Charlotte Ginsborg

DOP: Charlotte Ginsborg, Gabi Norland, JasonEllis