Award-winning Back to Back Theatre brings a visual soapbox to town: a 15-second timeframe, a grand theme of democracy and equality, and 25 years experience making extraordinary work.

The Democratic Set uses a custom-made film set; a neutral room with two opposing doors. Invited community groups collaborate with a resident creative team to create a rapidly moving series of short live performances and screen-based video portraits, with a live public ‘audience’. These are edited together into a single tracking shot through what seems to be a series of identical rooms. Disturbingly simple and tantalisingly strange, The Democratic Set shows how performance can, like democracy, allow people to be seen, to speak and to be heard.

From Bristol to Horsham and from Denmark to Castlemaine, The Democratic Set has generated performances that are insightful, funny, hard-hitting and heartfelt – but above all, deeply human. Join us to watch the filming and come to The Other Film Festival for a final screening of this unique collaborative work.