In Time

This short film explores the director's experience of the moving undercurrents of a primary school classroom in Manchester, UK, in 2019. It combines lo-fi footage taken by the director, and by 4 and 5 year olds, with documentation from two movement workshops designed to communicate the director's experiences of taking up 'position of child'.

By touching the same surfaces and entering the same rhythms as others, the methodology is an experiment in the practice of 'more-than-oneness' rather than of mining the imagined depths of childhood. Amidst the physical distancing of a global pandemic, the radical connectivity of young humans to each other and all that surrounds them tells us that entering this same space, rather than imposed catch-up curricula from outside, is a pathway to healing.