AN internationally-renowned filmmaker has documented the artistic transformation of a one mile section nestling underneath the M5 in Oldbury.

Alex Crowton, aged 38, shot the film The M5 Mile in July as artists descended on the industrial landscape for the urban design project MADE.

The day was a taster for the proposed Black Country Garden City which will see cafes, art galleries and bars installed under the mile stretch beneath the M5 between Oldbury and Smethwick.

Artists Danny Griffin-Hayes, Nita Newman, Bryan Hancox, Jayne Murray, Fusion Dance Company and Samuel Rodgers used art, dance, animation and graffiti.

MADE enlisted filmmaker Alex Crowton to create The M5 Mile to capture everything that happened that day.

He said: “This has been a wonderful project to be involved with.

“I am from Perry Barr originally so I know what it is like to walk undernearth motorways and the kind of weird environments they produce.

“With the stretch under the M5 there was a canal and so many fascinating shapes created by the industrial landscape.”

Mr Crowton is fresh from showcasing his latest film in the USA and the UK – The Sad and Beautiful World of Sparklehorse about the life and music of Mark Linkous, frontman of independent American alternative rock band Sparklehorse.

The former Royal Television Society Award winner specialises in documenting young people in the criminal justice system and the relationship between art and commerce.

A spokesman for MADE said: “The day was a fleeting, unique, bespoke curiosity, providing a snapshot of potential of forgotten, neglected and unused spaces inspired by the original idea of the M5 Mile.

“And for those not lucky enough to be there we documented the day, an exhibition will take place later in 2016 and we were delighted a film of the events was captured by Alex Crowton.”

Visit www.made.org.uk for more information about The M5 Mile.