Gated is a stop-motion film and experimental soundscape that investigates the systemic and psychological class barriers that lock working-class creatives out of the industry. Drawing from my own lived experience and youth work in Glasgow, the project explores the friction of navigating a sector that often filters out these individuals.

Through chaotic, handmade collages of shuttered Maryhill shops and an unpredictable, noise-gated score, the film acts as a sonic and visual metaphor for class-based exclusion. It challenges the viewer to recognize how working-class identity is structurally silenced as “unwanted noise” within elite spaces.

This was the practical side of my final year research project, Gated: Class Barriers and the Noise of Exclusion in the Creative Industries