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At a time that visible creative expression has never felt so vital, this intimate mixed media, rich archival documentary considers via memory and collective reflection, the formative years (1985-1990) of a seminal art department at the Glasgow School of Art and it's legacy today. Set in a city known at the time as the sick man of Europe, battling a right wing Thatcherite government that had dismantled most of it’s industries and famously claimed there was no such thing as society.. we examine an inspiration for an education that encouraged students to use the city as their canvas and find a resonant platforms to share their own perspective and voice within it's structures.

Image: Space for a trailer - Sorcha Dallas

The film will celebrate collective storytelling, collaborative production, and have public visibility from the start of production. It will commission new work, inviting artists to feed in paid commissions for animation, music sound design and film - to invite layered story telling, creative anecdote and a firm intention of authenticity and myth busting.

The film has had a necessary 6 years of development and research. This has given the project has a visibility that allows time to draw in collaborative voice and artworks.

Over 50 hours of unseen archival footage, photography and audio archives have been found and digitised helping feed back into existing research material at the GSA archives to help create a wide cross section of material on the department for future generations.

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