PREPPERS: The Film
Documentary meets dance in this thought provoking, timely and hopeful new performance film.
Combining verbatim documentary, dance and theatre, PREPPERS: The Film asks: are we truly prepared?
With real interviews from members of the UK survival and preparedness community, intercut and combined with compelling movement, PREPPERS: The Film is a unique and uplifting film that investigates how we prepare for, respond during, and recover from emergency situations - revealing our resilience and humanity in times of crisis, and what we need in order to truly survive.
Are you prepared?
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a note from tim
““As a society, we don’t think about preparedness enough. It may seem a ‘doomy’ topic, but since starting the PREPPERS project, I realise that preparing isn’t about preparing for the worst, it’s actually a hopeful activity, it’s ‘hope in practical form’.””
short version
CREDITS
A film by Casson & Friends
Based on the live performance
Choreography by Tim Casson in collaboration with the performers
Performed by Lucy Starkey & Mathew Winston
Original Music by Paul Rogerson
Filmed by Alisa Boanta & John Thorpe
Filmed on location at Hill Holt Wood, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Supported by Crewe Lyceum, DanceEast, Pavilion Dance South West, Out There Arts, Metal Peterborough, Surf The Wave, Hack Green Nuclear Bunker, The Real Survivalists, South Kesteven District Council, Hill Holt Wood, and public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Special Thanks to Rob, Sarita, Penny, Wendy, Henry, Jack, Duncan, Dan, Hannah, Fin, Stephen, our Metal Community, Rachael Spence, Lucy Siebert, Helen Dawson, Simon Hollingsworth, Tim van Eyken, Sarina Young, Louisa Pope, Kelsie Acton, Elizabeth Simoens, and all the Friends.
For Casson & Friends
Artistic Director Tim Casson
Executive Producer Ian Abbott
Director’s Cut, Subtitled & Audio Described Versions