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9/10
Adam Curtis style history
imdb-9208314 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
This is how we got here. As I was born in 1970, growing up with the riots.

It's fantastic film making, documentary photography- which I ignored, but she provides a historical legacy. Narrating her reasons with the old 35mm negatives, perforated. Before we had phones.

In The Young Ones era, SoHo - the sex work capital of the UK, seedy back then, now a boho destination. Private shops, can you imagine publishing photos in real time of punters, (oh wait - that happens) Well paced, the, (quite long) film moves through as we see an increasing disillusioned Tish. Turning the camera on herself as she gives birth. Doing less photography, and becoming the subject.

Was she a photographer or a director, as we see less photos later on, of her. You see life through a lens.

We all have videos and photos of childhood, Tish sees a new world, racially diverse. Dismissing bias. My parents used to write on the back of pictures.

Moving into modern times, we see redevelopment. Which happened after WW2 as we rebuilt. It happened before, it will happen again. Civilisations only last so long, houses only stand for so long.

Tower blocks are demolished, slums flattened. Gentrification and Capitalisation - we have not learnt any lessons.
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10/10
The truth will find away
daveyjohns6 December 2023
Authentic and real Tish is a love letter from a daughter to her mother. But also a love letter to those forgotten and left on the scrapheap. The images she capture with her Olympus camera, that now hang in the Tate modern. Capture the working class world of the 70s and 80s Northeast like no other. Because Tish was born from the very soul of the places and people she photographed. From Capturing the soullessness of the phenomenally popular juvenile jazz bands of the time, regimented "FUN" for the working class kids! To the honesty and hope of the youth that was sadly betrayed by those in power.

There's a heartbreakingly moving moment where Tish's Daughter, Ella is captured as a child singing on an old recording made on a tape machine.

Twinkle Twinkle little star. The sound of a child's honestly, hope and innocent joy is there to hear. Tish is a beautifully made documentary.
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10/10
I'm really sorry....
ianharrison7471 April 2024
I didn't know. This draw dropping moment. A feeling of disbelief. Viewing Rembrandts etchings or Van Gogh's drawings. They all felt like you were there. Tish was on par. She was in the battlefield like McCullin and Kilip, never parachuted in to do a job. She was there. The photos were black and white but the blood was still red. Her signing on at the age of 56 was a frightening indication of the lack of respect for art and ability.

Passion. Art or music without passion is nothing and irrelevant. Her black and white photos in the documentary are sometimes genius. The subject is often so unattractive - poverty, struggle, redundancy, deprivation and unemployment with new technology threatening permanency. Hats off to the BBC and Tish's daughter Ella for exposure at last. It makes me feel ashamed.
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