Today we went to Bristol for the day, which I thoroughly enjoyed. We firstly went to a gallery called the arnolfini and saw an exhibition in which they showed us several different short films relating to certain subjects. The first one we saw was John Akomfrah: Vertigo sea, this was about a mans relationship with the sea and the exploration of its role in the history of slavery, migration and conflict. This film explicitly shows the greed and horror of the whaling industry. The film was quite hard to understand at first as I didn't really know what it was about, however the way the artist filmed and directed it was very clever and interesting. After we had watched a couple of these films we were allowed to look around the gallery a little bit.
After we had finished in the gallery we were taken to Nelson street, which is a street full with graffiti. I was in awe by a lot of the art that was around me, it was amazing to be brought out of somewhere like where I live which is all countryside and enclosed to somewhere like Bristol which is full of buildings and art everywhere.
After this we were allowed to roam the area to get lunch, take photos, shop etc.. We all decided to go to a place called Loot and another vintage looking shop, I loved this because some of the clothes in there were so cool!
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