You Should’ve Seen Us

This film/poem is part of a presentation designed for screening at literature and film festivals across the region, a collaboration between writer Paul Mills and the YFA.

The presentation covers a period from 1908 – 1958: imagined voices of people in North Yorkshire from before, during and after the Second World War.

‘You Should’ve Seen Us’ presents a selection of films from the Yorkshire Film Archive edited to combine the moving image with a recorded spoken text. Audiences hear Paul Mills’ poems, spoken by himself and actors. Some are commentaries, others imagined voices of people in North Yorkshire from before, during and after the Second World War, so that a picture emerges of a period of cultural change. Through the use of different voices and skilful editing, the aim of the collaboration is to question, often in a tone of comic irony, how we respond to images of local and national history, to encourage audiences to discuss their reactions, and to explore some of the various ways archive films can stimulate new writing.

For more information and booking:

You Should've Seen Us: Case Study

Email: youshouldveseenus@gmail.com

Telephone: 01765 603633

www.paulmillswriting.co.uk