Bank Job is an ongoing interactive art installation and documentary film project directed by Hilary Powell and film-maker Daniel Edelstyn.
Its aim is to create a discourse with the community about current economic policy, issues of money generation, debt and corporate responsibility. This has been done by raising money through selling banknotes and bonds as pieces of art, and using this money to buy up rogue payday loan debt, and then quite literally blow it up in a symbolic public explosion.
The scope of the project has included creation of a project identity that is used both within the feature film and across all printed matter.
subtractor was also commissioned to design a full set of currency and guilt-edged bonds, to be handcrafted (screen printed, letterpress printed, foiled, embossed) in a disused bank in Walthamstow, East London by members of the local community.
The award-winning project is garnering international press attention, with major features on BBC1, The Guardian, Financial Times, New York Times, Big Issue, Metro and many other publications.
The currency designed by subtractor, is now in the collections of some of the worlds leading art institutions including the V&A and Smithsonian. The film is slated for release late 2019.
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