Thelma

'Thelma' comes from the series 'The Realm of Forgotten Existence' created during Piotr Piasta's residency in Berwick upon Tweed. Piasta has spent time with older people in Berwick, listening to stories about life in the town and using this to inform a series of oral history interviews with older people – many who have lived in Berwick all their life. While the images in the films reveal a landscape that often seems unchanged, the narrative reveals fragments of forgotten stories and traditions, skills and working lives no longer of value in today’s society.