Lost Bus Routes

LOCATION: Yorkshire

FILM: John Ledger

Lost Bus Routes and Pre-Election Rambles is a spoken word account of a series of rambles myself and a friend, Michael Hill, did around former mining villages we grew up in, on the eve of the 2015 general election.

The villages straggle along the West/South Yorkshire border, and have become half forgotten/half commuter dormitories over the recent decades. The idea was that walk through old haunts, would aid that of conjuring a once-felt optimism for a different sort of future that we had as children.

Lost Bus Routes and Pre-Election Rambles from john Ledger on Vimeo.

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

John B Ledger is a visual artist and writer trying to map the social landscape. If you want to see, watch and read more, go to his website here.

 

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