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This film was commissioned for the Immersive room at the The Energy Central Learning Hub, Blyth. Part of the Blyth Festival of Energy a weekend of energy related artistic works across the town of Blyth.

The Energy Central Learning Hub is already training the next generation at the Port. And soon, the Energy Central Institute will rise in the heart of the town centre, a new university-level facility in partnership with Durham and Newcastle Universities, built to make Blyth the centre of renewable energy innovation in the UK.

I was incredibly proud to share Future Energy, a 360° immersive film I created for the Energy Central Learning Hub, commissioned for the Festival of Energy and screened in their dedicated projection room.

The film was built from just three photographs of the Hub, two taken at 5am in early morning light, one in the evening. Through intense layered animation, deconstruction and motion, the building's geometry is pushed, pulled, and transformed. Mirroring something deeper: Blyth itself. Not erasing its past, but using it to construct something extraordinary.

The soundtrack, composed under my alter ego Skin Vehicles, drives the whole experience. Beginning with a found folk song celebrating Blyth's power stations in the 1960s, woven together with modern electronic rhythm, energetic textures, techno. Frenetic and alive.

A huge thank you to the partners who made this possible:
Ben Hines for use of photographs of the immersive room.
Energy Central Campus, for the incredible facility and the vision to commission art that celebrates it
Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, leading the offshore renewable energy revolution that's putting Blyth back on the global map
Port of Blyth, for their support and whose remarkable history runs through the fabric of Blyth
The North East Combined Authority, for backing culture and economic transformation hand in hand Northumberland County Council, for investing in Blyth's identity and its people.