Aku Pilih Kamu

Over a period of six months Simon Green filmed the inhabitants of the former mining town of Stanley, County Durham. On a hilltop not too far from Newcastle, Durham and Sunderland, the former mining town of Stanley overlooks rolling countryside all the way to the North Sea in the east and to the Pennines in the west. With the decline of traditional industries in the North East as a whole, as well as in this town, much of the supporting infrastructure has fallen into decline: empty buildings, a struggling high street, lack of investment by big business or local government until very recently, reputation for crime and deprivation, a town that according to both insiders and outsiders should be bulldozed. Over a period of six months Simon Green filmed the inhabitants of Stanley and the surrounding areas.