As part of her project The Materialisation of Persuasion, Harriet is in the process of making Art on the Streets, a new documentary film about propaganda exhibitions mounted on British bomb sites during World War Two, to be launched in spring 2023. The film’s central focus is ‘For Liberty’, an exhibition mounted by anti-fascist group Artists International Association in the bombed-out shell of the John Lewis department store in 1943, to demonstrate the values people were fighting for. The film tells the stories of some of the artists who took part, including Peter Laszlo Peri, Betty Rea and FHK Henrion.

The film draws on archival film and photographs, as well as filming in locations around London and the South East. She is making the film in collaboration with Four Corners, London. Harriet Atkinson is working with co-Director and Producer Jane Dibblin, Director of Photography Elena Reimeryte, Camera Assistant Nicholas D.Celano, Production Assistant and Picture Researcher Giacomo Baraldi and Editor Hugh Hartford.