In Between Time

JULY 2018

'I feel alive.' PERFORMER AT FILWOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE

100 people from across Bristol collaborated with world-renowned Back to Back Theatre to create a film of their city.

Back to Back Theatre brought The Democratic Set to the UK for the first time for the IBT10 Festival. Eight years later, in July 2018, they returned to Bristol to create a new film with people from across the city.

Over four days people joined us in Netham Park, Barton Hill and Filwood Community Centre, Knowle West. Their performances were captured on camera to create a film to be premiered in Autumn 2019.

'The crew are ingenious, sensitive to the ideas that are brought to them and to the sensibility of those who bring them... And, thanks to all their efforts, I must say, I left happy.' OSUNWUNMI, PERFORMER IN THE DEMOCRATIC SET AT IBT10

A woman sits on the ground constructing a shoe rack. She is lit from the front with red lighting and cast a dark shadow on the wall behind her.

A group of six children doing the 'floss' dance move in a large wooden box

A young woman and a man look at each other laughing. She holds a baby to her chest. He is stroking the babies head.

A bare-chested man talks to a woman who is wearing all black. Each of them has one foot on the metal ladder that lies on the floor in front of them.

A man and a woman dressed in bowler hats and smart black jackets dancing.

People fill out forms and chat in a garden courtyard. There are lots of flowers in the foreground.

ALL IMAGES: THE DEMOCRATIC SET, BACK TO BACK THEATRE © PAUL BLAKEMORE

This project is part of We Are Bristol, a three-year programme which brings together international artists with the people of Bristol to create extraordinary artworks and events.

We Are Bristol has been developed in partnership with Up Our Street, Knowle West Media Centre, Ambition Lawrence Weston and UWE with funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Bristol City Council.