BOYSHAPEDSPACE

A Film Poem capturing moments of loss within a community recovering from the aftermath of violence. A family sits down to a meal, three friends head to the basketball court for a pickup game and a college class settles into seminar. Each moment is interrupted by the physical and indelible reminder of the victim. The son, the brother, the friend and the pupil no longer present.

This film shifts the narrative of youth violence away from fear and blame onto the spaces left in the communities afflicted, muting statistics and politics to focus on the people. Those whose lives are taken and the lives of those left behind. This film exists as the visualisation for the poem Boyshapedspace written and performed by Adrian B Earle as a rallying cry, a hymn to loss and its permanence. The film joins the poem in the beginning of a campaign to reconsider and support the families and communities afflicted with the tragedy of youth violence.

New Creatives is supported by Arts Council England and BBC Arts

Writer/ Director: Adrian B Earle

Composer: Alex Earle

Director of Photography: Daniel Alexander

Producer: Tenisha White