The Power Project
INTRO
We worked with The Power Project at Play Fair, a community festival in east London, to capture a day of their stall in action. The Power Project run Empowerment Self Defence workshops that help women and others build confidence, set boundaries and move through the world with a bit more power – trauma-informed, invitation-led, and built around the belief that people are the authority on their own bodies. The film profiles what that looks like out in the wild, on a stall, in the middle of a festival, rather than in a studio.
OUTCOME
For this one we combined usual digital footage with shooting on a genuine old VHS camera, tape and all. It's a slower, scrappier way of working than we're used to, but that was the point – it gave the end film a warm, homemade feel that matched the energy of the day far better than anything shot on a modern rig could. Grainy, a bit rough round the edges, entirely human – which, funnily enough, is exactly what The Power Project is about too.
