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Make Your Way
Synopsis
Make Your Way contrasts the world of underground and overground London.
Chris is at ease in the streets of the city. He’s keen and sharp and likely to make his way. But he never travels by underground. It unnerves him. Below the streets life is uncertain: Chris only knows where he is by reading signs.
One day he has to take a train and the train stops at a deserted station he can’t find on the map. There’s someone waiting to guide him but he can’t quite make her out. She tells him how to make his way from here.
About The City Speaks:
Co-produced by BBC Radio 4 and Film London Artists' Moving Image Network, The City Speaks: A Film for Radio, is a multi-faceted portrayal of London created for radio, cinema and television. Artist film-makers were commissioned to collaborate with radio writers to produce a unique portrait of London. Responding to a narrative framework by writer Peter Ackroyd, the artist and writer teams created a film in six sections.
The City Speaks was supported by an Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award.
Chris is at ease in the streets of the city. He’s keen and sharp and likely to make his way. But he never travels by underground. It unnerves him. Below the streets life is uncertain: Chris only knows where he is by reading signs.
One day he has to take a train and the train stops at a deserted station he can’t find on the map. There’s someone waiting to guide him but he can’t quite make her out. She tells him how to make his way from here.
About The City Speaks:
Co-produced by BBC Radio 4 and Film London Artists' Moving Image Network, The City Speaks: A Film for Radio, is a multi-faceted portrayal of London created for radio, cinema and television. Artist film-makers were commissioned to collaborate with radio writers to produce a unique portrait of London. Responding to a narrative framework by writer Peter Ackroyd, the artist and writer teams created a film in six sections.
The City Speaks was supported by an Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award.
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Selected Screenings
- Canary Wharf Film Festival, 31 August 2008
- Premiere Screening at BFI Southbank, March 2008
- Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, March 2008
Project Background
Co-produced by BBC Radio 4 and Film London Artists' Moving Image Network, The City Speaks: A Film for Radio, is a multi-faceted portrayal of London created for radio, cinema and television.
Artist film-makers were commissioned to collaborate with radio writers to produce a unique portrait of London. Responding to a narrative framework by writer Peter Ackroyd, the artist and writer teams created a film in six sections.
Key Information
Film
Make Your Way
Artist
Sam Brady
Project
The City Speaks
Year Completed
2007
Duration
14'
Screening format
Single screen, Digi Beta SP / DVD Pal
