Dryden Goodwin
Alongside
2019, 24', UK
A film by Dryden Goodwin
Alongside is a closely observed portrait of a care worker as he builds supportive relationships with three vulnerable clients with severe physical disabilities or autism. The need to observe, decipher and translate, are mirrored in the filmmaking process as Goodwin combines drawing, camera and sound in his inquiry into proximity and empathy.
Throughout the whole film there are ideas of observing and perception. There’s the care worker’s, there’s mine, but also the young men that he works with, and how he understands how they might read the world. How it’s possible to attempt to understand others, and their motivations, is a core theme that emerged in the making of the film.
Dryden Goodwin
You’re always looking out for the person that you’re with. You’re in somebody’s life, for that time you want to try and draw something out of people. Being there with that person, at that moment.
Paul Johnstone
Read the transcription of Alongside here.
Read what Dryden says about Alongside here.
Dryden Goodwin lives and works in London. He makes gallery installations, films and works in public space, and often incorporates drawing in combination with photography and live action video. Exhibitions include: Tate Modern; Tate Britain; The Photographers' Gallery, London; National Portrait Gallery, London: Venice Biennale; OCAT, China. Festival screenings include CPH:DOX and Rotterdam. Dryden studied, and is now a Professor, at the Slade School of Fine Art, London.
Paul Johnstone is a care worker and physiotherapist. Supporting people with physical disabilities and autism, he works with individuals and groups in the NHS and at Community Links, Derby. Paul is also a singer, musician and songwriter and self taught artist, who makes paintings, drawings and ceramics.
Jack Johnstone, David Thompson and Rob Fantom live in Derby, They are clients of Community Links, a community based service (not for profit organisation) for people with physical and learning disabilities, with an emphasis on developing independence, and supporting people to realise their full potential.
Credits
Featuring
Paul Johnstone
Jack Johnstone
David Thompson
Rob Fantom
Camera, Drawing, Editing, Sound & Music
Dryden Goodwin
Producer
Jo Cole
Thanks
Paul Calderwood, Clients, Families & Staff at Community Links, Derby
Jane Hardstaff, QUAD
Executive Producers
Abigail Addison and Gary Thomas for Animate Projects
Peter Bonnell for QUAD
