Project Art Works ran six three hour art and digital video workshops over three weeks during the summer 2001 at the Hollington Youth Centre. The sessions were run by three artists from Project Art Works and supported by a youth worker from Hastings and Bexhill Area Youth Services.

The activities included using polaroid cameras and video cameras to take portrait and action shots of each other, connecting projectors to cameras and computers to project large images onto paper, drawing in charcoal on 10 metre rolls of paper and filming interviews with the participants and organisers whilst painting on canvas and using photoshop.

The projections took place between 26-28 October 2001 with the imagebox installed on a prime site in the foyer of the Hastings Pier. All three films shown were shown on a continuous loop each evening to attract passers by as well as those attending the Film Festival and Coastal Currents events. Ten of the participants came to see the projection with four staying all day. Feedback from them was very positive and they took it in turns to film the event and interview passers by.

The footage from the workshops was edited into three films totalling 12 mins in length. The sequences and content of the first and longest film 'Purple Hills' were a result of the natural development of the workshop and reflected the intensity and variety of the workshop activities. Much of the footage was reviewed and edited by the participants during the workshops. 'Purple Hills' was selected and shown at the Shot by the Sea Film Festival.

The second and third films 'BlueLadder' and 'Video Dives' were edited largely from footage of specific activities set up by the participants. This involved them filming each other diving, jumping , leaping and falling as a natural progression to the portrait shots. These films were edited by Project Art Works to be shown (with Purple Hills) on 'Imagebox' - a four sided projection structure.

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