A Scene In Between
Without photos, film, proper documentation, history dissolves into the soft focus of personal memory. Following on from Sam Knee’s influential book, A Scene In Between, which covered the years 1980-1988, director, Paul Kelly from Heavenly Films has been working on a film that engages with this same important period which partly followed on from punk music. At the time it was mostly unlabelled, seen as a kind of independent almost pop music (later shortened to indie), which connected up a cluster of mostly melodic groups that went all the way from the fragile to the ferocious - Television Personalities, Orange Juice, Dolly Mixture, Marine Girls, Strawberry Switchblade, The Pastels, Primal Scream, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smiths, Shop Assistants, My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, Loop, The Vaselines and of course, many, many others.
We're keen to add to our collection of unseen footage (film, video, photographs) to better tell the story of the scene in between, and what was going on around it in 1980s Britain. We’re interested in anything you might have relating to those groups but even more so other music culture, art events, clubs, shows, cities, street life, home life, job centres, political events, CND rallies. The view from your window. Maybe your parents were in a cine-club or you had a Super-8 camera or did something as part of a personal project, maybe you recently turned up some weird stuff at a jumble sale.
No matter how much of a tangent, how small or insignificant it may seem, it will help us to tell this story. We want to get it right and to do that we need you to help us be exactly in the moment.
If you feel you can help please contact us via info@heavenlyfilms.net
Thanks to everyone who's been in touch since our last message. The response was overwhelming and we will be getting back to everyone shortly. We still need more period archive so do please message us or write if you have anything you think might be of interest.
