The first people a visitor to the Olympic Park would encounter, once you have passed through security, are the bus drivers. Every site or office staff working on the park relies on the team of thirty bus drivers to ferry them to their place of work, and without them nothing could function. Sam [Semra Yusuf] is a Turkish Cypriot woman, resident in Newham, funded by the Olympic Apprentice Scheme to get her bus licence, and also a passionate long distance swimmer. On 12 August 2011 Sam swam the length of the bus route she normally drives, in the newly completed Olympic pool – a distance of 1,270 metres. This is an excerpt from the resulting film documenting that Olympic swim, as well as her daily routine, her work, colleagues and the building of the pool itself. It is an insight into the workings of the park from the perspective of one individual.
FILM PRODUCED BY
NEVILLE GABIE & DAN FARBEROFF
DIRECTED BY
DAN FARBEROFF
NEVILLE GABIE
A PROJECT BY NEVILLE GABIE, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE ON THE OLYMPIC PARK
APPEARANCE:
SEMRA 'SAM' YUSUF TOM KAKAYIRE RAJA TANVEER FAWAD ALI BINAK SHALA DARLINGTON GREENAWAY NEVILLE CUNNINGHAM MAGDY RAFLA MAVIS MENSAH JOHN ANDERSON KEVIN NUNKOO MIKE ELLIOTT OLIVER CAMPBELL ALFIE PHILLIPS LORRAINE MARTINS
WITH THANKS TO:
ADRIANA MARQUES SARAH WEIR CLAIRE GEVAUX SAM WILKINSON SARAH BUDD STUART FRASER IAN CROCKFORD MATTHEW BURKETT
AND TO ALL THE OLYMPIC PARK BUS DRIVERS
FILMING:
CAMERA (DV)
NEVILLE GABIE
CAMERA (HD)
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY / 1ST CAMERA DAN FARBEROFF
2ND CAMERA / STEADYCAM TIM DOLLIMORE
3RD CAMERA / CRANE DARREN PERRY
EQUIPMENT HIRE & TECHNICAL SUPPORT THE MEDIA WORKSHOP
COMMISSIONED BY THE ODA
SUPPORTED BY
THE OLYMPIC DELIVERY AUTHORITY ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND INSITE ARTS
