Before We Open is a series of films showing British makers at work in the hours before their doors open.
The films are meant to be fly-on-the-wall, unhurried, informal glimpses into some of the places you don’t normally get to see.
It’s ambient, observational and celebrates the skill, craft and experience of the makers, showing the team arriving, the machines warming up and the things being made as the light changes outside.
Put one on, settle in and watch a world come to life.
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Latest film
- RISE Bakehouse, Reading: the first film
The queue outside, later that morning