seagulls don’t like me
Self-portrait, North Pier
Seagulls Don't Like Me is a short experimental film exploring Blackpool’s coastline and those who walk it. A look at the wondrous honesty of a place that keeps going, adopting, reframing, conditioning and being alive.
The narrative is a response to 359 minutes of interviews and chats during the off season - winter.
In long, it is a collective identity. It is resilience, simmering quietly for decades without making a scene. It is coming back, to a place, to yourself - to stay loyal. Over and over again. It is about a town being exactly what it is with integrity, grit and humour. The title itself mocks the artist’s anxiety and paranoia present during the making of the film.
In short, it is about the difficulty but eventuality of change and what it means to still be standing at the end.
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Commissioned by Penned in the Margins as part of Edgelandia.
From salt flats to flood zones, abandoned villages to eroding coastlines, Edgelandia explores the remarkable places and people on the edge of the map.
Photo by MP