-
About Us
ClimbingTheWall produces work that explores social/community issues. We draw upon our skills in documentary film, oral history & community engagement. Read more
-
Authors
-
Themes
advocacy allotments beachcombing Brighton Brighton & Hove catch 22 class collaboration collecting community community food growing criminal justice system documentary excluded food growing homeless housing pressure informal learning land use Learning Partnership life story narratives marginal marginalised memory poverty qualitative review relationships reminiscence resilience rural salvaged sanctuary Second World War substance use sustainability telling stories the road training urban urban fringe value of green spaces walking wellbeing Whitley Bay youth offending
-
Some Kind of Life
People who have been, or still are, homeless. Stories challenging assumptions about what constitutes home and how people understand their own sense of belonging.
-
An Imagined Country
A journey structured around story fragments. Fragments, now imagined as much as remembered.
-
Standing On Common Ground
A series of short films focusing on different aspects of community food growing.
-
Craven Vale
People's approaches to growing their own food. Through the interplay of their stories, we articulate an awareness of the importance of ‘place’ and a sense of belonging that these spaces encourage. -
Under the Same Roof
Under the Same Roof looks at four different housing coops in Brighton and the ways in which they provide security and control over people's housing needs. -
No Place Like Home
No Place Like Home continues our exploration of homelessness and ideas of belonging, that we first encountered during our work with Catch 22 and their resettlement programme. -
Something in the Silence
Exploring the stories of three individuals, survivors of suicide. They talk about silence surrounding suicide, and the need to be heard, not judged. -
In Passing
This short film reflects the ruptures in the world of these young people’s immediate families and the wider social network they inhabit. -
Some Kind of Life
People who have been, or still are, homeless. Stories challenging assumptions about what constitutes home and how people understand their own sense of belonging. -
An Imagined Country
A journey structured around story fragments. Fragments, now imagined as much as remembered. -
Standing On Common Ground
A series of short films focusing on different aspects of community food growing. -
In The Object
Occasional series of short films exploring the use of objects in reminiscence work. -
Scattered Lives
Films made about Catch 22, Northampton, who work with people on the edges of the Criminal justice System. -
Home Ground
Home Ground-Telling Tales: a collaborative film project with a group of young people aged 12-17, on the edges of the Criminal Justice System -
Salvaged
Objects collected on Whitley Bay beach on the North East coast of England, and Brighton beach on the south east coast. Walking memories; beachcombing. -
Common Ground
Common Ground is a sustained exploration of a marginal landscape, an allotment site. -
Reading Room
Association through chance arrangement; material for recollection, reflection. -
Just Looking
Documentary/reportage from 1982 until around 2002. -
Evaluating
A selection of evaluation work Teresa has undertaken. -
research
A range of research papers, mainly by Teresa.
Teresa Cairns
Denis Doran