Endz of the World — Film

Endz of the World confronts the Black Country's industrial roots and their global echoes. This nine-minute moving image weaves personal stories, missing local histories, and environmental truths into a stark critique of progress's hidden costs. It pairs with the print series, mirroring photolithography — the technique that etches silicon chips.

The film exposes the Anthropocene's origins: how this region's innovations set patterns of extraction and control that define today. It links past exploitation of people and land to urgent present-day crises, warning how unchecked technology may amplify old harms.

Visually, it synthesises Arthur Lockwood's and Edwin Butler Bayliss's romantic vistas, Nick Hedges's raw social records, historical archives, and collected 1950s–60s narratives. Fed into a custom dataset, these fuel generative AI tools. The result: a vivid dialogue between human memory and machine vision.