Start

Brighton can be a very interesting place. Since starting my second year of studying here, I have observed the emergence of a personal choice; either to invest fully into the ‘student experience,’ turning up to lectures with pen on your face from the night previous, or sitting in a messy living room amongst pizza boxes watching Scrubs as the ‘best years of your life’ pass by, or, invest in the copious amounts of free time. It has always been my desire most prominently to do this, and I am fortunate that I have managed to find a group of like-minded, creatively driven people.

Thus, we have an idea. Here it is. We are going to make a documentary.

In September 2009, 7 young men, all with burning aspirations and the will to learn new tricks about the world around them, moved into a age old Regency town house in the centre of Brighton to begin their second year of studies at the University of Sussex.

Being a student is the best possible way to observe one's every day surroundings; with a distinct lack of contact hours, a sky television subscription and bad weather all contributing to the amount of time invested in looking out of windows, and ascertaining an idea of what happens on the surrounding streets on a day to day basis. As time went on, it came to light that, when darkness falls on the quiet terraced street, a darker, seedier side to Brighton emerges. Drug dealing, prostitution and homelessness are aspects of every major city that are left largely to the imagination, however Henry Degnin, Saul Abraham, Jonathan Willington and Callum Cameron took it upon themselves to conduct an investigation into the socio-cultural make up of their quaint seaside town. What is it about Brighton that draws in such a diverse amalgamation of people?