12/01/2024
What are your memories of Sutton past? I remember the music most - from clubs to pubs to sweaty house raves in Sutton's blossoming house music scene (did you know DJ grew up in Carshalton, buying records in Our Price in Sutton!).
Talking Heads, Living Histories’ is a 3-part video series that fuses interviews with Sutton residents with archive and AI-rendered images, text and sounds. The videos can be viewed on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/WSEbXZJkcfI?si=8GxlePLZSCkSNJvn
Our aim was to bring local history and heritage alive through recollections of the past and take a glimpse into imagined futures, all focused around life in the London Borough of Sutton THEN, NOW, and NEXT. The interviews were recorded over the summer at borough-wide locations and as we hoped from the outset, the video series was driven by the narrative. We were delighted that so many members of the public were happy to take part and share their stories with a passion that typifies the creative, cultural and community-minded spirit of the Borough. Each series could easily have become four hours long and it is our sincere hope that this film will inspire many others to collect and illustrate stories of Then, Now, Next, with the integrity that true-life stories deserve. We delved into the amazing Sutton Archives to source local heritage and beautiful photographs to add to the narratives that we, as a film crew, were privileged to capture thanks to so many amazing people sharing their stories with us.
Sutton Council Sutton Heritage Sutton Libraries London National Lottery Heritage Fund
