People In Order: 1. Age

Human Beings. 1-100
This is first in a series of four films -- People In Order -- commissioned by the UK's Channel 4 in 2006. The concept behind our films was simple: we asked ourselves if you can reveal something about life by simply arranging people according to scales. Three minutes is a very short time to communicate something -- perhaps too short to tell a story, or to get to know a character -- so we wanted to make this series by setting ourselves some very straightforward rules, and then following them through over a long trip. The rules had to be simple so it would take the audience virtually no time to understand them. We established what scales we'd look at, and then chose how each film would be framed. Then it was a case of getting in a campervan and driving round Britain, filming as many people as we could over 4 weeks in February, coping with microphones crackling and our camera refusing to work.
The experience was exhausting but also life affirming. In our whole trip we were struck by how happy people were to help. Only a handful of our shoots were arranged in advance. We relied instead on the kindness of strangers - and we found that everywhere, from deprived urban estates to rural aristocrats.
The resulting films are like a list of government statistics where the citizens they are referring to have broken out from behind the figures on the page. The people on the screen stop us from seeing them as numbers. Even in single second bursts there are worlds of personality stretching out in front of us. The films are really about our awe at how big life is, infinite in its variety, even when it seems just normal to each of us living it.
Festivals: 2006: Leipzig DocFest. Shadow Festival, Amsterdam. 2007: 1st Prize (Pro Category) @ Medienfestival, Germany. Audience Award @ Britspotting, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart. International Women's Film Festival, Germany. Krakow, Poland. Portable Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia. Rooftop Film Festival, New York, USA. 2008: PDX, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Exhibitions: Laura Bartlett Gallery, London. June-July 2006. Paul Smith Space, Tokyo. August 2006. Seven @ espacesurplus, Berlin, March 2007. Zeit...los @ Initiative Bürgerzentrum Schuhfabrik Ahlen, Germany, May-June 2009.
Web: This part - Age - was a featured video on KZbin, Yahoo, Very Short List -- 50,000 views in its first week online, No.2 in the worldwide Viral Video Chart in January 2008, Over 900,000 views and 5 stars on KZbin ( • People in Order (corre... ).
Broadcast: : Channel 4, Monday 8th May 2006 7:55PM (plus 8 repeats)
© Lenka Clayton & James Price 2006
Directed / Produced & Edited by James Price & Lenka Clayton
Camera by James Price
Sound by Lenka Clayton

[@AngryTinyMan]

"91 and playin' the drums!"

[@acgaming1932]

2:13 Stop Banging

[@Jejking]

1:07 Wow you made a guy found his passion, haha. Awesome!

[@zntx]

Is that it?

[@biscuitsandgravy7360]

2:23 does this guy got some sick drumming skills or what?

[@Krimhful]

59 confirmed wizard

[@toesinbakedclay1228]

This might be your finest work here i was moved quite a bit Brilliant and the sun gets caught in the drum set on numerous occasions which tells me you filmed them either in the morning or the evening light

[@user-pj5kl4uq9j]

神を見にきた

[@s4t4n96]

the fifteen one is very reminescent of my own adolescence.

[@user-xh7nb1ov8m]

ﾌｨﾌﾃｨｰﾝ!!!私結構好きよ

[@e.antony01]

0:32 it's alright, no need to get hyped up and no need to break the snare drum apart

[@_Midori]

Lmao I came for this part thanks to the Japanese peopke

[@jonathanbeatrice8317]

46 tapping the side like, "hs I'm...46..." which is accurate

[@thalias6945]

2:37 Mabel, *bang* how old are you? *bang*How old are you? *bang*

[@e.antony01]

I thought the name was Stephen, lol

[@JollyBaron]

i lovw the fact that most of the old people are better at drumming than most of the young ones ^^

[@addressadam]

nice. Whats the relevance of the drum?

[@legendarykidyt7344]

44 was good

[@Halycon99-40]

勇者フィフティーンを見に来た

[@billyh88uk]

They should do a followup to this where they get back all the original people 13 years later, saying their current ages, and for those who've died just show a drum sitting in an empty chair.

[@FieldStudiesFilms]

Hi Billy, I'd love to return to it, but we just did on camera release forms instead of getting contact details. I've been regretting it ever since. I think instead of a drum on an empty chair I might have someone close to them hold up their names and dates, to suggest how we live on in others.

[@offline4532]

@@FieldStudiesFilms Do you know who the 59 year old man could be?

[@skye4]

@@offline4532 Gandalf

[@Danish_07]

@@FieldStudiesFilms Are you still active

[@tommyliangwei3724]

2006

[@RikerLovesWorf]

AHM TWELF

[@vicg3336]

91 a pond the drums

[@maxyw419]

1:32 神 (59) please, can my face look a little better? thanks

[@pjk327]

1:05 he must have good drumming skills!

[@e.antony01]

44 years old then, now he's like 60

[@laureeeent]

i cri evritim

[@vinitasaxena360]

1:08 band Baja barat.

[@tylerjosephismysmolbean249]

"stop banging" lol

[@ErikOlsen1]

Wait, was that Jeff Daniels? At 64?

[@lennyboi2283]

15 is like Blue Peter!

[@georgenormal4240]

2:04 I feel bad

[@Jejking]

That smile though, it was great for her, you can see it :)

[@alicependragon465]

you should really make this video from 1-112 years old.

[@sonysoldier9587]

It's crazy to think that the 1 year old at the beginning is now 14 years old...

[@rahmel2009]

the description says 2006 so the kids at least 17 now, also the fact anyone over like 75 is likely dead now.

[@sonysoldier9587]

@@rahmel2009 Oh shit! Well, damn. That's even crazier.

[@rahmel2009]

@@sonysoldier9587the craziest part to me is that the people in the mid 20s range are now in or nearing their early 40s

[@user-pu1ru3zj8t]

59

[@OLDWVLF]

!

[@DMFL98]

SEVENTYTHREE!

[@pjk327]

2:33 I am ninety six year old

[@WiiMusicBooster]

Oh, God (Age: 59), Please help me get a waifu girlfriend.

[@purushuvayalombran1175]

Why do some people not say their age

[@e.antony01]

Ikr

[@purushuvayalombran1175]

Btw I liked the 40 year old

[@5haku_]

1:32

[@pjk327]

1:20 She looks like gangsta granny

[@pjk327]

I meant 1:40

[@rahmel2009]

There is no such thing as eighty - zero

[@lennyboi2283]

Rah Mel he said eight zero

[@Swampy0110]

He said 80 years old

[@rahmel2009]

@@Swampy0110 it was probably just his heavy accent then, also i was young when i made this comment.

[@---jr4pc]

1:08 cringe*

[@Swampy0110]

No you

[@Kelthor85]

Wow so pointless. "Hey let's find 100 people of different ages and get them to hit a drum!" Normal person: "Yeah, let's not."

[@Jejking]

Normal person has pointless life!