This short film, seen through the prism of a fractured and partial narrative, reflects and refracts the ruptures in the world of these young people’s immediate families and the wider social network they inhabit. The film forms part of a larger Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) & Royal Society of the Arts (RSA) funded Research Fellowship in Peterborough: Places For All? placesforall.co.uk. (See Some Kind of Life)
We wrote the following short essay as a reflection on our final filmwork for the AHRC/RSA project. It’s an exploration of the processes we go through during interviewing and filming, in an attempt to start unravelling what actually happens when you work ethnographically. The people mentioned had or still live in Peterborough Foyer, supported housing for young people in the city. We pose questions here, we don’t presume to know the answers.
Teresa Cairns
Denis Doran