Housing in London - Artists Respond

i was here - the changing face of housing. Open House Weekend 2012 Saturday, 22 September 2012 from 15:00 to 22:00 (BST) London, United Kingdom

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Haggerston Estate

E8 4HN London
United Kingdom 

Saturday, 22 September 2012 from 15:00 to 22:00 (BST)

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15:00 Film tour of Hackney with Ian Christie Renowned film historian Ian Christie gives a journey through cinema history in Hackney, passing by iconic film locations. 1.5 hours, from 15:00-16:30 - beginning in Samuel House courtyard, E8 4HN.	22 Sep 2012	Free		Sold Out
15:00 Tour of City Mills with L&Q and PRP architects Housing developers L&Q and architects PRP give a personal tour of City Mills development. 1.5 hours, from 15:00-16:30 - beginning in Samuel House courtyard, E8 4HN.	22 Sep 2012	Free		Sold Out
15:00 Tour of Haggerston Estate with David Roberts Architectural researcher David Roberts gives an performative tour of the Haggerston Estate drawn from his research over the last two years. Please note the tour will be recorded to feature in a film, please do not take part if you do not wish to participate. 1 hour from 15:00-16:00 - beginning in Samuel House courtyard, E8 4HN.	22 Sep 2012	Free		Sold Out
16:00 Tour of Haggerston Estate with David Roberts Architectural researcher David Roberts gives an performative tour of the Haggerston Estate drawn from his research over the last two years. Please note the tour will be recorded to feature in a film, please do not take part if you do not wish to participate. 1 hour from 16:00-17:00 - beginning in Samuel House courtyard, E8 4HN.	22 Sep 2012	Free		Sold Out
17:00 Discussions Personal reflections from artists, architects, authors and residents on the changing nature of housing in London. Confirmed speakers include Owen Jones (Independent newspaper columnist and author of Chavs), Marcus Coates (performance artist/filmmaker), Michael Rosen and Emma Louise Williams (poet and filmmaker of Under the Cranes), Andrea Luka Zimmerman (resident and artist filmmaker) Ruth Marie Tunkara (resident and community activist) Neal Purvis (housing expert), chaired by David Roberts (architectural researcher). 2 hours, from 17:00-19:00 - Art House Foundation, 55 Laburnum Street, E2 8BD.	22 Sep 2012	Free		Sold Out
19:30 Open air performance and films Open air film screenings, music, food & drinks on Dunston Road, beside the Regent's Canal. Performance by singer/songwriter Olivia Chaney, followed by films on the theme of housing - Dunston Road, E8 4HN.	22 Sep 2012	Free

London International Documentary Festival May 29

END OF THE LINE + UNDER THE CRANES

START: 29 MAY 2012 1:00 PM

VENUE: ROXY BAR AND SCREEN

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29 May 2012 1:00 pm

Venue:

Roxy Bar and Screen

Phone:

020 74074057

Address:

128-132 Borough High Street, Greater London, United Kingdom, SE1 1LB

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End of the Line

World Premiere

Rosie Baldwin, Anna Snowball, Holly Stimson, Hannah Temple | 5:02 mins

This short film created and produced by Four Lovely Ladies Productions surveys life and death; journeying into the open expanse of the Thames estuary on a dated train that runs to the end of the world’s longest pleasure pier in Southend-On-Sea. 

We begin our journey led by the camera, exploring the scene as the slow, rickety carriages travel further away from land. The beautifully bleak location oozes with nostalgia and mystery, immersing us in an enigmatic sense of purgatory.. With a change of weather, isolation transforms itself into a heavenly sense of hope, as the train reaches its destination. The filmmakers begin encountering visitors, painting a raw portrait of people drawn to this off-season seaside pier in the depths of winter. 
The interviews create fleeting intimate moments with strangers who speak of fond memories, regrets and hope for the future. 

The day draws to an end, and the train begins its long, slow voyage back to land as the visitors begin to divulge into their beliefs about life, death, lost ones and the after-life. The train arrives at the station and its passengers disembark, wandering off to rejoin everyday life, leaving their time at Southend pier behind – a hazy memory.

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Under the Cranes

+ Panel Discussion

Emma-Louise Williams | United Kingdom | 56 mins

Blending drama and documentary styles, Under the Cranes is a beautifully conceived meditation on the multicultural of history Hackney and the changes that continue to shape this part of East London. Director Emma-Louise Williams seeks to counter the prevailing perception of the inner city as a site of failure, ugliness and misdeed through a socio-poetics of everyday life. Breaking with the linear narrative convention, the audience is invited to apprehend the city as a sequence of interwoven vignettes: 'past in the present; present in the past.'

A script derived from poet Michael Rosen's documentary play, Hackney Streets, is layered with graceful location shots and rare archive footage. The film's soundscape mixes poetry, music, folksong and location recordings, while the picture juxtaposes slow panning shots with paintings by East London artists, Leon Kossoff, Jock McFadyen and James MacKinnon. We hear from the famous (Shakespeare in Shoreditch; 'Black Beauty' author, Anna Sewell; and poet Anna Barbauld) alongside a Jamaican builder, a Bangladeshi restaurant owner and the Jewish 43 Group taking on Oswald Mosley in Dalston. Blending past and present, the film offers a lyrical, painterly defence of the everyday, while raising questions about the process of regeneration and the meaning we find in the places we call home.

Under the Cranes: advance notice of two screenings

Under the Cranes will be showing at the
London International Documentary Festival   (May-June 2012) 
Details to follow.   Very chuffed!

http://www.lidf.co.uk/


Next screening

Hackney Picturehouse
Sunday 29th April 4.00 pm
followed by q & a with director and writer  

http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/

Hackney Picturehouse
270 Mare Street
London
E8 1HE
Box Office Number: 0871 902 5734

Under the Cranes: literature, film and the city at the LSE

Under the Cranes screening and discussion this
Saturday 3 March  5-6.30 pm
at the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival


Speakers: Michael Rosen, Emma-Louise Williams
Respondents: Lasse Johansson, Andrea Luka Zimmerman of Fugitive Images
Chair: Patrick Hazard (Director, London International Documentary Festival)

Click on the link for details and tickets:

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2012/03/LitFest20120303t1700vSZT.aspx

What others are saying about Under the Cranes

“ Engaging, gentle, dreamlike – Williams’ Hackney is a layered, shifting place teeming with multiple voices and realities, echoed verbally by Rosen’s collage of reminiscence, characteristically generous poetry and collected urban folksongs. Rosen’s presence reminds us of east London’s reputation as a place of political upheaval.”
Sight and Sound

“ A marvellous evocation of Hackney – the place, the peoples and their dreams too. It reveals the ruin, disconnection and the frailty of life without giving an inch to literary misanthropy or the voyeuristic perspectives in which east London is exploited for tales of misery, depravity and social failure. “
Patrick Wright, cultural historian

“ This beautifully constructed film urges us to recognise what is already there, at the heart of a diverse and thriving community, while raising the question that perhaps we are all living in the shadow of the cranes. “
Socialist Review

“ A wonderfully life-affirming film-poem of place full of lost time and effacements, reefs of street-markets and shop fronts, painted in stock-brick yellows, steel shutter greys and silvery monochromes; and full of people, always people, the voices who have passed this way and called this home. As a collage of the city at its most quick, it has the ache and tug of what has been and gone; as a moving study of resourcefulness, resistance and resilience, it collapses time and returns each story to its street. “
Paul Farley, poet


“ For questionable reasons, in the media, the sight in a market of African textile prints and the sound of a Cockney voice selling tomatoes are separated. It’s untruthful. But the truth is there on Ridley Road Market and it is shot through the film too. And I loved it. This film is a rare thing. “
Lemn Sissay, poet

“ Under the Cranes is an argument to your emotions. Old grainy archive footage seems to invest even the most mundane scenes with a bitter-sweet glow. When these images are paired with sparse piano or traditional Turkish music – and beatboxing and Toumani Diabete – you’ve got a guaranteed tearjerker. But this film is not about nostalgia. The film finds beauty in trash-collecting, and places modern scenes next to old. “
Quietus Review

“ A film-poem that mixes documentary footage and poetry to explore the effect of urban redevelopment on local people. The film weaves together the history of one small part of London in a wonderfully impressionistic way. “
Socialist Worker

NEXT SCREENING Sunday 8 January 2012 at The Renoir Cinema 11am


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The Renoir Cinema, Brunswick Square, London WC1

Nearest London tube: Russell Square
Overground: King’s Cross, Euston
Buses: 7, 17, 45, 46, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
For updates on disabled access, please call the Renoir on 08717-033 991

Under the Cranes at The Renoir Cinema

The London Socialist film Co-op are screening Under the Cranes with
Locked Out (Joan Sekler) to kick-off their 2012 Programme

Sunday 8 January 2012

10.30am for 11am start at the Renoir Cinema.

LOCKED OUT
Joan Sekler, US 2010 [12A], 60 mins

The multinational, Rio Tinto group, historically known for draconian measures, attempted to severely cut the pay and conditions of 570 borax miners in the isolated, desert town of Boron, California, in 2010. Joan Sekler, independent filmmaker, crafts the course of the miners' action during the 107 days of a lock out. With solidarity at local and national level and the support of their community the miners agree to a new contract with the majority of their benefits intact.


UNDER THE CRANES
Emma-Louise Williams, UK 2011 [12A], 56 mins

Director Emma-Louise Williams has collaborated with Hackney poet and resident Michael Rosen to produce a film-poem that explores the inter-connection between ourselves and where we live, based on his play Hackney Streets. The changing face of Hackney and its residents emerges through current images, urban sounds and rare historical footage, and Rosen's voice illuminates and questions the threats and the choices fostered by the dubious activities of Hackney Council and the regeneration of the area.

Discussion led by Emma-Louise Williams and Michael Rosen

http://socialistfilm.blogspot.com/

Cinema information:
Renoir Cinema, Brunswick Square, London WC1

Nearest London tube: Russell Square
Overground: King’s Cross, Euston
Buses: 7, 17, 45, 46, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
For updates on disabled access, please call the Renoir on 08717-033 991


About the LSFC

"Now in its twenty-first year, the London Socialist Film Co-op promotes socialist culture by arranging screenings where people can see films and take part in a panel discussion.

We show recent cinema releases and pictures that are rarely screened because they are old films, foreign films or were censored. We show films that inform and educate.

We encourage our members and like-minded filmmakers to make films and DVDs and we are always interested to hear of appropriate films - low budget shorts or campaign videos as well as fully funded professional programmes - that we might want to screen."

New Year 2012 Screening at The Renoir Cinema, London

Advance Notice

We are delighted to announce that
"Under the Cranes" will be showing
at The Renoir Cinema on Sunday 8th January
as part of the London Socialist Film Co-op's 2012 programme

Also showing "Locked Out"

With panel Michael Rosen, Emma-Louise Williams and Shane Enright (tbc)  

DETAILS TO FOLLOW
http://www.socialistfilm.blogspot.com/