'Do I know you?' by Susan Francis will go on display in the Salisbury Cathedral Cloisters.

As part of the Cathedral’s ongoing Memory and Identity season Susan Francis’s film Do I know You?, inspired by conversations with rough sleepers in Salisbury, will be screened for a week from Wednesday, March 1.

Filmed over an eight-year period, the project takes Susan’s films based on stories she heard in shelters and drop-in centres and plays them back to the streets they come from.

She said: “On the street they are hidden in plain sight, either ignored or hurried past. When you have no address you lose your identity and place in society. This is not a choice people make, it is what happened to them.”

The film focuses on the story of a homeless person that Susan got to know in the course of her work. Although his voice is heard throughout, we never sees his face.

Susan said: “I deliberately used his voice and not his image because I felt my story would be far more powerful if you only heard the subject’s words and didn’t form any preconceptions about him.”

Former cathedral chorister and artistic director of the music charity La Folia, Howard Moody, created the music for the film alongside musician Tim Byford and individuals living on the streets.

Canon Robert Titley, said: “It is a powerful concept and one that resonates with the gospels, which show Jesus speaking his word not in a pulpit but on the street and putting at the very centre of his attention people who are ignored, despised or on the edge of society.

“We hope that this project and the issues explored through our Memory and Identity year prompt us all to listen for the voices from our streets.”