ABSTRACT

The most recent Inside Film project has been working with a group of people who need to use an independent foodbank in South London run by the local church. The combination of analysis and intervention offered by Inside Film that has the potential to result in a radical praxis has a crucial role to play in the rearticulation of class narratives and the task of making the working class visible. The people who use food banks have become decontextualized statistics whose stories are merely a part of larger narrative of the paradigmatic 'need for austerity measures' and welfare reform. The film made by the foodbank users wanted to address their categorization as an abstract homogenous group and provide a space to tell their own stories and discuss their own experiences. Confronting economic and cultural inequalities is only possible through the implementation of an egalitarian approach to education and the production of film.