Pro Grip (How to be Humans)

'Pro Grip (How to be Humans)' is a new film commission by Jordan Baseman, showing free at The Firs B&B Plymouth, Torpoint, from 23 June to 21 October 2026, Tuesday to Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays, 10am to 5pm. The film brings together archive footage from the TSW collection held at The Box — capturing the 1990 UK Arm Wrestling Championships — with an original interview with psychologist Dr Gray Atherton from the University of Plymouth. Arm wrestlers challenge one another across the table, their faces moving through feelings from subtle states of calm to extreme contortions of anguish. Interwoven with these encounters, Dr Atherton discusses the development of non-verbal emotions, reflecting on how humans use movement, gestures and facial expressions to communicate and bond.

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