00:00 So much energy came out of it, 00:14 Portrait of Andy Porter, born 1945 in London (UK) Works and Lives in London, Filmmaker, Community Video activist 00:19 I grew up in Bromley. 01:07 My dad was a civil servant and my mother a housewife. 02:30 Leaving the church when Sixteen. 03:35 Joining Youth-CND / Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. 04:25 Just wanting to breath. 06:03 After studying English at Sussex University I moved to Notting Hill in 1968. 08:11 Working with skinheads. 09:22 Community and Youth Work studies at Goldsmiths College, 1972-74 / First encounter with video. 11:46 First community video experiments in Notting Hill - John Hoppy Hopkins / Founding of West London Media Workshop with Ken Lynam and Fonce Santana. 13:38 Video tapes about housing conditions. 16:12 Combining community video with youth work. 18:34 Discovering identity politics / Ken Lynam and the Irish Video Project / The People to People series on Channel 4. 20:46 Making a living / My job as a video operator / Videos for social agencies. 22:37 Back to Channel 4 with community style filmmaking on a fictional base / Cooperation with Jonnie Turpie. 26:49 Back to my region / Video work with young people in the East End of London / Hi8us South and Midlands / UK Sound TV / Grime. 30:03 Brexit and the East End / The Geezers / BOW - Then & Now. 33:37 Credits