This video represents a project created in 2002 that is based up 18 elders living in the Black Country of the West Midlands, England. It took the form of an installation as well as an audio-visual portrait.
In the installation 18 speakers stand in a circle in a darkened room through which the elders talk, both in turn and together, of things that matter to them, reflecting upon lived experience, weighing up the most important things about their life.
In this video images of the installation are set against an extract of the soundtrack. Images taken with the elders are also shown.