*NOT AS RECORDED | Sharing event with Rachel McBrinn

Join us for a special event with artist Rachel McBrinn, sharing new research which constellates around ​‘LIVINGSTON – A PLAN FOR LIVING’, a 1976 propaganda film made to promote McBrinn’s hometown of Livingston, one of Scotland’s postwar new towns.

One of many new town propaganda films made around this time, the film features actors playing a family who start a new life in Livingston, and aims to showcase the town’s industrial potential to prospective international investors. Through archival research and conversations with the cast and crew of this film, as well as her own family members, Rachel considers what the production and distribution of this film can tell us about the distortions of the screen encounter.

‘*NOT AS RECORDED’ has been devised to share research Rachel is developing towards a work in progress. This research period has been supported by LUX Scotland and has included paid research and development time; materials and travel; mentorship; and concludes with this public sharing event.

Thanks to The National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive and Collective Gallery for their support.

Image description: A scanned page shows an archival family photograph of a white washed pebble-dash wall overlaid with a handwritten note: ​“Nothings safe from my camera”.