One review on 17 Dec 2022

UK 2021

Running time: 87 mins

Bank Job

Directors : Hilary Powell , Daniel Edelstyn 

Setting: Walthamstow, London
Summary: A documentary about an art project to buy up junk debt and destroy it


Colour: Colour and B&W


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First Seen: Sat 17th Dec 2022
Catalogued: 18th Dec 2022

Synopsis

Dealing with debt in Walthamstow by selling local money (art) and buying up junk debt that has been sold at discount.

A bit of a film about film-making starting with trying to raise finance to make the film and using dramatised and self-conscious filming along with conventional fly-on wall techniques to tell the story of the project. 

Reviews

by rogerco on Sat 17th Dec 2022 Streamed proj @ home

An Entertaining Job

Summary

A creative documentary

Full review

Not really a film about money and how debt works - although that came in to it. The focus was more on the mechanics of the creative project - printing and selling your own "money" and using the proceeds to support the local community by donating to local causes and symbolically destroying some local debt by blowing up a van full of a million bits of paper saying "debt"

More a film about filmmaking than an explanatory documentary - ultimately the explosion is just a film-makers trope (wank?) but quite entertaining along the way - lots of good real people doing stuff outside the system.