ABSTRACT
This chapter draws upon a range of scholarly disciplines from the perspective of practitioner-researchers to reflect upon the implications and potentials of a community filmmaking practice that is simultaneously aesthetic, political, spatial and social, through a discussion of a local, movement-based performance for and through digital video. It considers how the process-driven triangulation of thinking bodies, sexual subjectivities and emplacement within such a practice might enable us to acknowledge, consolidate and reimagine a community that had been either erased or marginalised in dominant accounts of its city. The chapter reviews 'Heaven Is a Place', a short dance film, made by collaboration with members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) community in Plymouth in South West England. The 'heaven' of collaboratively filmed encounter is the dynamic, multiple, shifting intersection of the temporal, the spatial and the experiential, combining emotional, corporeal, cognitive and memory registers.
