Three Cantos

The moving-image works at the heart of Paths You Walk. Three cinematic cantos reimagining migration to the Black Country in the 1960s, built from oral testimony gathered in Caldmore, Palfrey, Pleck, and The Butts, and staged on a real Walsall street dressed back into period.

Canto I: Ambush. A first-day arrival on a Walsall street, painterly visuals between memory and myth.

Canto II: After the Storms. A terraced street transformed into a fully realised 1960s world. Period interiors, vintage props, intimate domestic scenes that honour the early migrant families settling in the Black Country.

Canto III: Oh Walsall. From textile-mill hum to the hush of terraced streets, a love letter to the working people who built a new life in the industrial heartland.

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