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00:02 We're at Cannon Hill Park at the Mac.
00:05 I'm at the Outdoor Theater
00:06 'cause on the 16th of September, which is Saturday,
00:08 we will be doing a performance,
00:10 which is called Why Are You Smiling?
00:11 It's a very emotive piece.
00:14 I think a lot of time when you see people on skates,
00:15 it's more routine-based, it's very dramatic,
00:18 and actually this is quite slow-paced and emotive,
00:21 so I think they're gonna probably come upon emotions
00:24 that they didn't think they'd feel.
00:26 And the film Rolling Out Brum is about the skate community.
00:28 It's been directed by Yannatan Tahiri.
00:30 He's an amazing director in the community.
00:34 So it's just about us, what we do, who we are,
00:37 how we have fun together, and just skate Brum,
00:40 which is really where it started in Cannon Hill for us.
00:43 And then I guess there's a lot of other groups
00:45 that come out of that
00:46 'cause we've got different ways of expressing ourselves.
00:48 We all have our own voices,
00:50 but we're one collective group, which is beautiful.
00:52 So that's what it's about.
00:53 We got commissioned to engage with the skating community
00:57 and create a documentary about them.
00:59 It's art, it's about community,
01:02 but we're really interested in bringing things together,
01:04 breaking boundaries,
01:05 and then together we make this piece of work.
01:08 - The film I made with the skaters
01:09 is called Rolling Out Brum.
01:11 The initial idea started
01:13 because we were having lots of skaters
01:16 as part of the Taal Ballroom film.
01:17 The Taal Ballroom film was a eulogy film
01:20 about saying goodbye to the Taal Ballroom,
01:23 which was an amazing space at some point, a roller rink.
01:26 But the roller skating film
01:27 was an amazing opportunity for that.
01:29 So just over time, as you could see,
01:31 like stars started aligning
01:33 and then Iris managed to get us some funding
01:36 and that was just ball rolling after that.
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