The Warehouse Project's night to remember
A gritty and reflective film traces the cultural legacy and collective memories of Manchester’s nightlife for the clubbing institution’s 20th anniversary.
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- Production Company ProdCo/London
- Director Leigh Powis
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Credits
View on- Production Company ProdCo/London
- Director Leigh Powis
- Post Production Pundersons Gardens
- Head of Production Sam Levene
- Executive Producer Theo Hue Williams
- Executive Producer/Partner Zico Judge
- Executive Producer Ian Pons Jewell
- Producer Fin Mulligan-Wild
- DP Jake Gabbay
- Editor Jesse Watt / (Editor)
- Editor Leigh Powis
- Post Producer Grace Conway
- Executive Producer Tom Viney
- Colorist John O'Riordan
- Sound Design & Mix Tim Burns
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Credits
powered by- Production Company ProdCo/London
- Director Leigh Powis
- Post Production Pundersons Gardens
- Head of Production Sam Levene
- Executive Producer Theo Hue Williams
- Executive Producer/Partner Zico Judge
- Executive Producer Ian Pons Jewell
- Producer Fin Mulligan-Wild
- DP Jake Gabbay
- Editor Jesse Watt / (Editor)
- Editor Leigh Powis
- Post Producer Grace Conway
- Executive Producer Tom Viney
- Colorist John O'Riordan
- Sound Design & Mix Tim Burns
Manchester clubbing institution The Warehouse Project marks its 20th anniversary with this immersive and emotive film, directed by Leigh Powis through ProdCo, capturing two decades of music, movement and collective experience.
Set throughout greater Manchester with a cast of 17 individuals drawn from real Warehouse Project audiences, the six-minute film, titled Twenty Years in Manchester, is an artistic and atmospheric reflection on the people, spaces and stories that shape the city’s nightlife.
With the help of DP Jake Gabbay, the project was shot using some of the final remaining rolls of Kodak Ektachrome E100, mirroring the film’s themes of preservation and collective memory and giving the visuals an archival quality.
Leigh Powis, Director, said: “Trying to distil two decades of subculture and chaos into one visual narrative all came back to one core idea: love. I wasn’t really chasing ‘industrial grit’ aesthetically. What interested me more was the heart of it all – the passion, sweat, euphoria and intensity. When those emotions are captured honestly and unpolished, they naturally become raw, and that rawness is what people read as grit.
