Platform Arts
Kaitlyn Church
Fordtown (2024)
Fordtown is an expanded documentary project exploring the closure of the Ford Motor Company’s manufacturing facilities and its impact on Geelong. In a post-industrial society, cities inevitably transition from ‘blue-collar’ industries such as manufacturing into knowledge industries. Fordtown questions the human cost of this progress and documents the impact of Ford’s demise on the Geelong community through the stories of individual workers.