House of Changes
From the collection of
The Bradford Festival Mela 1998
- Bradford
- 1998
House of Changes
Opinions and values expressed in a busy Agbrigg hairdressing salon.
This film was explicitly designed to take a snapshot of Yorkshire at a moment in time on which future generations could reflect; however, religion and sexuality are topics on which, even in today's society, individuals have very strong views and can be quite polarizing, even among families and friends. Set in a Wakefield hairdressing salon, the film explores the changes in lifestyle of two former gay lovers through their discovery of the Church of the True Vine. Views on everything from The Holy Spirit, Father Christmas, homosexuality, and New Age "psychobabble" are freely dispensed at the salon. The men explain what it means for them to be a born-again Christian, focusing on rebirth, new life, baptism, and a personal relationship with Jesus, and how it has allowed them to be welcomed into this Christian community.
House of Changes' is a contemporary, thought provoking, and challenging film. Set in a Wakefield hairdressing salon, the film explores the changes in life-style of two former gay lovers through their discovery of the Church of the True Vine.
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Yorkshire at the Millennium
Snapshots of a region's life.
"Do they realise that in 50 or 100 years the films that are being made now will be curiosities... all of which are of value to the present generation, but how much more will they be to the men and women of the future?" (Views and Film Index, 1906).
In the late 1990s, the Yorkshire Media Consortium was set up as a result of an innovative YFA/National Lottery/Arts Council/Yorkshire Television collaboration from 1997 to 2000, which commissioned 37 new programmes from community filmmakers across the region. It was designed to give independent filmmakers freedom to reflect the concerns of local communities and people across the region, while also creating a valuable new resource, a record of life a century on from the first pioneers of the moving image.
The resulting collection encourages individual voices to emerge from across Yorkshire and enables today's audiences to glimpse into people's homes and lives at a key moment in history at the turn of the millennium.
28 videos in this collection
1
The Bradford Festival Mela 1998
2
Bradford Interchanges
3
Curry City
4
Mills and Healers
5
A to B
6
Roots
7
Three for a Pound
8
Angels from Alcatraz
9
Art in the Park
10
Connected
11
Home Grown
12
House of Changes
13
Taming the Tigers
14
Warwick Within
15
Weekend Nights
16
Building Foundations
17
Hands and Voices
18
Play On
19
Scarborough
20
Saying Their Prayers
21
Young Hearts and Growing Pains
22
Never Give Up
23
The Rhubarb Triangle
24
Two World Famous Things About Batley
25
Yorkshire from the Aire
26
The Borrowers
27
Meat Crazy!
28