Leigh984, The creative portfolio of Leigh Spencer

Part of the One Giant Leap festival in Leicester, Overview Effect is a outdoor spectacle celebrating the achievements of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing. After the saturn rockets launch we join the astronauts on the surface of the moon, in doing so we appreciate their shift in understanding about the fragile planet we live on. The film, projected onto the back of Leicester`s historic Corn Exchange, asks us to celebrate what the human race can do but also asks the cost of the problems we chose to ignore. With climate change a "HOT TOPIC ISSUE" right now Metro Boulot Dodo`s film is as relevant today as when the apollo astronauts set foot on the moons surface 50 years ago.

On 16th June Mod scooters and their owners gathered in Leicester`s New Market Square for an event called #Scooterama, The event, which is part of the Revive festival in the city, took visitors back to the 1960`s with a DJ spinning music from the era and all sorts of immaculately polished scooters parked all around the square. Each scooter reflected it`s owners personality and bright colors and chrome mirrors shone in the afternoon sunshine. My film shows a few of the scooters and their owners and attempts to give a feeling of the event.

On International Womens day 2018 I took a look at the 7ft bronze statue of Leicester suffragette Alice Hawkins which stands in New Market Square Leicester, The recently unveiled 800lb sculpture created by sculptor Sean Hedges-Quinn celebrates the suffragettes life and stands in the very place where Alice gave “many rousing speeches”. Alice stands defiant on a 4ft granite plinth with one arm raised whilst holding her rolled up speech in the other. Being International Womens day and the centenary year of the votes for women movement I noticed a visitor had tied purple and green ribbons (suffragette colors) to Alice`s lace up boots and left flowers with a 'thank you' card at her feet. Further information on Alice and her life can be found at www.alicesuffragette.co.uk