Fugitive Images

What is the place of art in acts of social re-imagination and repair?
What languages can be found to articulate such practices?
Is it possible to break new ground within the realm of engaged artistic practices?

This symposium marks the end of Rajni Shah Projects' Glorious. It aims to bring together people from different spheres of life to discuss and experience the meanings, methods and effects of art in relation to engaged and radical practices.

Using Glorious as a starting point, we are keen to explore the potential of engaged artistic practices, not in terms of a reductive understanding of the ‘efficacy’ of art in the world, but as a complicating, delicate, nuanced, uneasy journey towards new ways of thinking.

To register for Beyond Glorious please visit here.

London: The Soul of the Streets

with Iain Sinclair, Andrea Zimmerman and Ken Worpole

Thursday 23 May 2013, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

In conjunction with Hubert Blanz's Homeseekers exhibition.

London’s buildings, and the stories they contain, are central to the work of Iain Sinclair, Andrea Zimmerman and Ken Worpole. In this event they respond to Hubert Blanz’s idiosyncratic portrayal of London, through their own explorations into the history and personality of the city’s streets.

Iain Sinclair is a writer, based in Hackney, whose books include Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk and which mix folklore, oral histories, and architecture to create an alternative narrative of the inner city.

Andrea Zimmerman is a filmmaker whose new work, Estates: A Reverie, provides an insiders’ view of the Haggerston estate, in the final days before its demolition. It documents the residents painting of murals on the facades of the building, to provide an alternative face – both literal and metaphorical – to the one found in Blanz’s photographs.

Chairing the event is Ken Worpole, one of the UK’s leading writers on landscape and society and Senior Professor at The Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University.

http://openhouse2013.com/2013/05/14/open-house-events-tuesday-14-may/

Open House is a nine-day space (12th – 19th May) in Elephant & Castle that will bring together people facing the housing crisis across London to organise and take action around our collective housing needs. Whether you’re a council tenant facing the bedroom tax or a squatter threatened with eviction, a private renter dealing with a dodgy landlord or a member of a housing co-op fighting to survive – this space is for you.

We aim to work with a wide range of groups and individuals organising around housing to build on what is already happening, facilitate a hub to share stories and tactics, and create a platform for future co-ordinated action.

Open House will have a practical focus on what we can do to reclaim housing and the city. It will involve over a week of workshops, talks, events, exhibitions and games on a range of issues, including (but not limited to) the bedroom tax, housing benefit changes, ‘the rents are too high’, eviction resistance, gentrification, redevelopment, who owns the city, access to land resources, repeal of section 144, Traveller rights, community growing and much much more.

This includes facilitating the continued formation a radical housing coalition, involving different groups working together to share resources, support fellow projects and organise joint relevant housing campaigns and actions.

TALK 5PM FRIDAY 26 APRIL | UCL SLADE RESEARCH CENTRE WOBURN SQUARE WC1H 0NS

An annual exhibition and events programme showcasing recent innovations in urban research methods and cross-disciplinary work on cities worldwide.

The exhibition and events feature work by undergraduates, masters and PhD students as well as academic staff and the wider community of researchers and practitioners developing new methods to tackle urban questions. We welcome you to participate in the exciting programme of talks, screenings, workshops and launches that accompanies this year’s diverse array of individual and group exhibits. In each gallery space visitors will be exposed to different methods of scrutinising the city and processes of urbanization, including practice-led research from art and architecture, ethnography, film-making, graphic design, soundscapes, photography, archival studies and performance.

David Roberts and Andrea Luka Zimmerman of Fugitive Images – From ‘Heroin’ to Heroines: Performing social housing in an inner-city estate

A dialogue between filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and writer David Roberts of Fugitive Images to discuss their long-term collaborative engagement filming residents of the Haggerston Estate.

For full programme please visit Cities Methdologies.

We would like to invite you!

Aldeburgh Festival

PLACE: Residence on Earth

With Blake Morrison, Ruth Padel, Ken Worpole, Patrick Wright, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, David Roberts and others

Investigations continue with architectural historian Ken Worpole exploring the utopian promise of social housing with colleagues from the Estate Film Project, while renowned poet and essayist Ruth Padel considers the universal impulse towards migration.

Renowned author Blake Morrison reads remarkable first-hand accounts of the Great Flood of 31 January, 1953; and cultural historian Patrick Wright explores the exile localism of overlooked (in the UK) but hugely important German writer Uwe Johnson and his time in Sheerness.

PLACE: Roots – Journeying Home

The third edition of our annual winter weekend exploration into the culture and meanings of place looks at the nature and resonance of home. It draws its inspiration from the life and travels of Benjamin Britten, and its title from an astute observation he made in 1951 about the importance of Suffolk to his life and creativity.

Dialogues on Performance 1: Collaboration will be held at CSM on the 28th November 13:45-15:30, Room M207, Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross. At the first event  speakers will present their work and how they engage with collaboration.

All welcome.

Lorne Campbell / Selma Dimitrijevic, co-Artistic Directors of Greyscale.
Former Associate Director of the Traverse Theatre and Creative Fellow of the RSC and Warwick University; Lorne has been the director and developer of a wide range of new plays. Playwright and Director Selma has worked in theatre and film in a wide range of styles, traditions and forms including commissions for the Traverse, Oran Mor, SAC, 7:84, ek performance and The Croatian National Theatre.GREYSCALE create work through a unique collaborative commissioning and development process, by removing the onus for genesis of style, form, character and narrative from the writer and sharing it across the creative team. Bringing the theatrical sensibility and expertise of actors, designers and directors into the process this way new writing can be combined with the playfulness of contemporary devised work, to author productions, rather than plays.
- http://www.greyscale.org.uk

Bill Risebero
Bill would like to give a short account of his association with drama in Bethlehem, in the Occupied Territories, the work in London which first led him to it, and the possibilities for exchange and collaboration which have emerged from it. Bill has played Peter Quince, and understands only too well the anxieties of his fellow amateur director and playwright. He has written or co-written three plays, all performed in London. His directing credits include these, as well as plays by Shakespeare, Brecht and Beckett.  He began acting with the Hampstead Players in 1977, and with Antic Disposition in 2005. Early on, he played Jesus. He then went steadily downhill, playing scheming nobles, fanatical clergy, an elderly receiver of stolen goods, a vengeful money-lender, a phoney, drunken judge, and various kinds of fool. He is involved with drama in West Bank Palestine, through Bethlehem University and Alrowwad, the cultural centre at Aida refugee camp.

Lee Campbell
Lee Campbell is a final year PhD candidate at Loughborough University School of Arts who uses  humour as a tool to explore conviviality and it’s relation to Jacques Derrida’s notion of ‘hostipitality’ (Derrida, 2000); hospitality operating in a liminal state between hospitable and hostile. Through a form of playful yet discomforting version of bodily slapstick that immerses all participants, as performance ‘host’, he utilises comedic methods within a Performance Art vernacular  to produce collaborative transactions between himself and audience members that oscillate between friendly/convivial and antagonistic/mean-spirited.
- http://leecampbellartist.blogspot.co.uk/

Anna Bunting-Branch
Anna Bunting-Branch will report back on the recent Feral Space Awayday. The notion of Feral Space has been defined by Dereck Harris and Michael Spencer as follows: Feral Space is a space for creative students from any discipline or stage to come together with no agenda other than to engage with each other by being open to different ways of seeing. The recent Feral Space Awayday (the first in a series of discussions on the subject) was centred around a proposition: The art and design curriculum could be enhanced to better support Feral Space initiatives and further develop the ethos of creative self-realisation. Presentations and round-table discussions developed the idea of what is meant by the notion of “Feral Space” and what is at stake in the concept: exploring existing “feral” initiatives (such as AIR, 5 Day Projects and Retreat) and issues surrounding the structure of courses and the application of marking criteria within the university.

Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Andrea will present 4 years of work with the community on the Haggerston Estate including Estate, a feature-length film set in an East London housing estate, which will tell the story of tenants who challenged the stereotypes of those who live in ‘sink’ estates. Estate reflects on urgent matters of regeneration, gentrification and architecture; its reasons, possibilities and consequences. But more importantly, it is a film about time and place, dreams and wonder. During this moment, where one structure has broken down, and a new one is about to form, another space unfolds; a space of proposals, of uncertainty, and of absolute initiative. In this opening, how might we ask important questions of our ideas of home, of history, always in the making, and of our capacities of imagination; that which influences not only how we’re seen, but also how we see.
- http://www.fugitiveimages.org.uk
- http://www.estatefilm.co.uk

Redrawing the Maps is a free, open event for anyone who is inspired by the work of John Berger and/or involved with the themes with which his work connects. It takes place between 5-10 November, 2012 in the spaces around the John Berger: Art And Property Now exhibition at the Inigo Rooms, Somerset House.

We are so happy to be invited to present Estate, a work in progress. 

photomonth east london
International photography festival
presents

 
RADICAL LONDON PORTFOLIOS
4pm – 6pm
2012 pics project, Souvid Datta, Fugitive Images, Paul Halliday, David Hoffman, Scotia Luhrs, Peter Marshall, Phil Maxwell, Colin O'Brien, Andres Pantoja, Natasha Quarmby, Max Reeves, Mike Seaborne, Daniel Stier, Ed Thompson, Paul Trevor, Dougie Wallace, Freddie Fei Wang, Mandy Williams.

Sunday 4 November 2012

Rich Mix
34-47 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch E1 6LA
Shoreditch High Street Stn, Liverpool Street tube.

Admission Free

The Rich Mix Bar and Café are open all day.

 
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Haggerston estate

As part of Open House Weekend 2012, Fugitive Images and the Floating Cinema present a free day of installations, tours, discussions and open-air film screenings in and around the Haggerston Estate. Architects, authors, artists and academics will offer a moment of reflection on the changing face of housing in London, accompanied by a series of critical and creative site-specific responses.

3-4:30pmSimultaneous performative, film and architectural tours. Tour of Haggerston Estate by architectural researcher David Roberts, Film tour of Hackney with renowned film historian Ian Christie, Tour of City Mills with L&Q Housing and PRP Architects.

5-7pm Architects, artists, authors and residents offer personal reflections 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).

7.30-10pm Open air film screenings, music, food & drinks on Dunston Road beside Regent's Canal. Performance by singer/songwriter Olivia Chaney, followed by films on the theme of housing.

http://iwashere.eventbrite.co.uk/

To open the 2012 Artists Book Fair, a special work-in- progress screening with songs live by Estate soundtrack composer Olivia Chaney. Visit Whitechapel Gallery.

Estate

Presented by Fugitive Images

Fri 22 June / 16:00 / AV Hill Theatre

A mixed media presentation by filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman, with David Roberts, Therese Henngingsen, Paul Hallam, Victor Buchli, chaired by Gareth Evans,  around the ongoing “Estate” project. Exploring the utopian vision of 20th Century social housing and the challenging reality of radical transformations to public architecture and community identities, this event focuses on cultural activist interventions within the Haggerston Estate, Hackney. From the internationally acclaimed photographic portrait series “i am here” in 2007 to current work on a documentary feature, Andrea and her collaborators will present an illustrated talk on this singular initiative.

Andrea Luka Zimmerman presents 'Estate' (title of paper: Homeland (In)Securities) at Dartington.

Dartington's The Home and The World (2012) is a summit for artists and other thinkers, and should you be near there this week please drop by. The full programme can be downloaded here.

ART/E/FACT - A NIGHT OF ART AND ANTHROPOLOGY
14 JUNE 2012 - 7PM | STOUR SPACE
Approaching the Estate: A Critical Inquiry Three Parts

click here for more information...

 ESTATE FILM + OLIVIA CHANEY | CONCERT
13 JUNE 2012 – 7PM | BETHNAL GREEN WORKING MEN’S CLUB

We invite you to join us for an evening of screening, food and performance in support of the feature film Estate. We are delighted to announce acclaimed singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney will follow discussions with the cast and crew to headline with an intimate concert.

 About Olivia:
Olivia’s distinctive and majestic blend of traditional and alternative folk has been described as ‘haunting and melodic’ and praised by LA Weekly and The Independent as ‘multi-talented… completely dizzying, a sound that didn't seem to be of this earth’ and ‘a star in the making'.
www.oliviachaney.net <http://www.oliviachaney.net/>

About Estate:
A major new feature-length film, by artist, filmmaker and cultural activist Andrea Luka Zimmerman, set in an East London housing estate, tells the story of tenants who challenged crass journalistic clichés of those who live in ‘sink’ estates.

For the last three years the Haggerston Estate, on the Regents Canal in Hackney, London has been a major landmark - attracting the attention of national newspapers, television and the architectural community. As the block was partially emptied ahead of demolition, the remaining residents filled the bricked-up windows of the empty flats with the larger-than-life photographic faces of those who lived there. Now the silent celebrities of i am here are finally going to be heard and seen more fully.

Estate chronicles the curious moment of creation and destruction as this dilapidated estate confronts its future. The final block will fall this autumn as a new construction rises alongside it. The film mixes documentary footage, archive material and fictional imagined scenes to reflect on urgent matters of regeneration, gentrification and architecture; its reasons, possibilities and consequences.
www.estatefilm.co.uk <http://www.estatefilm.co.uk/>

Date: Wednesday 13th June 2012
Time: 8pm (doors open 7pm)
Venue: Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 42-44 Pollard Row, E2 6NB Map available here <http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=bethnal+green+working+men's+club&hl=en&ll=51.528811,-0.063922&spn=0.006635,0.018647&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.918331,38.188477&hq=working+men's+club&hnear=Bethnal+Green,+Greater+London,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A>    
Admission: £8 concessions (proof of ID required), £10 advance, £12 on the door
Booking: Tickets available here <http://estateconcert.eventbrite.com/>

ESTATES
15 May 2012 / 19.00 / £4
BEAUTIFUL THING (Hettie MacDonald, 1996); ESTATE (Fugitive Images, forthcoming); MYTHS OF SOCIAL CAPITALISM, PART 1 (Rastko Novakovic, 2012); HEYGATE (Will Montgomery, 2010).

Frustrated with cliched and simplistic representations of council estates as "sink estates"? Come and join us on Tues 15th May when UCL Urban Lab Films and Passengerfilms will be at The Screen @ RADA for a collaborative night of films, art and conversation about ESTATES and the UK housing crisis.

Our feature film will be "Beautiful Thing" (1996), Hettie MacDonald and Jonathan Harvey's tender 'coming out' story, in which Thamesmead, set against the blue skies of a hot summer, plays an important role. The soundtrack features tunes from Mama Cass Elliot and The Mamas and the Papas that you'll no doubt be whistling on the way home. The film was widely acclaimed at the time of its release, winning awards at numerous festivals, including Paris Film Festival, São Paulo International Film Festival and GLAAD Media Awards. Author Jonathan Harvey will be present to introduce the film.

We'll also be showing an extract from Fugitive Images film-in-the-making, "Estate", a feature length documentary-fiction hybrid following the bulldozing of the Haggerston Estate, and the construction of replacement housing. Filmmakers Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Lasse Johansson will be present for Q&A.

Rastko Novakovic will present another film-in-progress, "Myths of Social Capitalism, Part 1", recorded on London's Heygate Estate, and critiquing its imminent demolition.

Poetry and sonic expert Will Montgomery (RHUL) will introduce his sound archiving project, "Heygate" (2010), recorded in and around the Heygate.

This is the sixth screening of a season by UCL Urban Lab Films and Passengerfilms on urban architectures.

Followed by Q&A with the artists, filmmakers and author of Beautiful Thing, Jonathan Harvey. Chair Ben Campkin (UCL Urban Laboratory).

HIGH RISE LIFE
17th May / 19.00 / £4
An Urban Lab, Open City Docs Fest and LSE collaboration
HIGH RISE (Gabriel Mascaro, 2009); LIFT (Marc Isaacs, 2002).

Followed by a discussion with Marc Isaacs (Director, Lift), Luciana Martins (Birkbeck), Tom Cordell (Director, Utopia London) and Richard Baxter (QMUL). Chair Andrew Harris (UCL Urban Laboratory).

Organised by Melissa Fernandez (LSE), Ben Campkin (UCL) and Oliver Wright (Open City).

The Screen @ RADA / Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre / Malet Street / WC1E 7JN

Tickets available from April 10th at the RADA box office (+44 (0)20 7636 7076) and at the door (first-come-first-served).

Further details at passengerfilms.wordpress.com & ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab

photomonth east london
International photography festival
presents

RADICAL LONDON PORTFOLIOS
4pm – 6pm
2012 pics project, Souvid Datta, Fugitive Images, Paul Halliday, David Hoffman, Scotia Luhrs, Peter Marshall, Phil Maxwell, Colin O'Brien, Andres Pantoja, Natasha Quarmby, Max Reeves, Mike Seaborne, Daniel Stier, Ed Thompson, Paul Trevor, Dougie Wallace, Freddie Fei Wang, Mandy Williams.

Sunday 4 November 2012

Rich Mix
34-47 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch E1 6LA
Shoreditch High Street Stn, Liverpool Street tube.

Admission Free

The Rich Mix Bar and Café are open all day.

 
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Flat Screens 10: The LAST Flat Screens

We are delighted to ask you to join us at the final, 10^th, Flat Screens screening &conversation on Wednesday 4^th April, from 7 – 9.30pm. FREE

How To Re-establish A Vodka Empire

+ Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell will talk about their film afterwards.

We are so lucky to have the last screening hosted by Hackney based filmmakers Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell

HOW TO RE-ESTABLISH A VODKA EMPIRE charts the journey of film director Dan Edelstyn as he tracks down his long-lost Jewish Ukrainian heritage, and then attempts to re-launch his great grandfather’s once glorious vodka empire.

The film is a whirlwind journey back in time to the life of the director's grandmother Maroussia Zorokovich - writer, dancer, painter and romantic - and follows her exciting and turbulent journey during the 1917 Russian Revolution, out of Ukraine, across Europe and into exile in Belfast.

But it is also a moving and comic account of a modern-day struggle to get a business started in the cutthroat world of the drinks industry. It is a meditation on loss and identity, and a celebration of family and life itself, cleverly disguised as a screwball business adventure.

There will (of course!!!) be Vodka tasting. Please bring snacks or desert to share.

Due to the nature of the space, booking for this event is essential.

Please RSVP to: info@fugitiveimages.org.uk / Studio75 is located at 75 Hebden Court, Laburnum Street, Haggerston E2 8BG; www.studio75.org.uk/map.html

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE

Film Screening, followed by Q&A with director Emma-Louise Williams and writer Michael Rosen
 
Respondents: Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Lasse Johansson, Fugitive Images
Chaired by Patrick Hazard, London International Documentary Festival
 
Under the Cranes is based on the documentary play for voices, Hackney Streets, by poet and former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen. Blending rare archive footage and dreamlike sequences of present-day Hackney, Williams links the everyday with the social and literary history of this dynamic and culturally diverse East London borough.
2011, 57 min
 
Organised as part of the LSE Literary Festival, with support from Myrdle Court Press <http://www.myrdlecourtpress.net/> . Tickets are free and ordered here: http://tinyurl.com/7pwpvw4
For more information, please contact events@lse.ac.uk

Flat Screens 9: a most timely film (Top Secret again, a UK pre-premiere)

We are happy to invite you to join us at the coming 9th Flat Screens film  & conversation event on Wednesday 29th February 2012, from 7 – 9.30pm…

Flat Screens 9 invited filmmaker and curator Alisa Lebow to present the film. 

Due to the nature of the space, booking for this event is essential. 

Please RSVP to info@fugitiveimages.org.uk / Studio75 is located at 75 Hebden Court, Laburnum Street, Haggerston E2 8BG; www.studio75.org.uk/map.html

Filming revolution: as events continue to unfold, filmmakers try desperately to capture the events as they unfold. Snap decisions are made about what should be included and what left out, writing history in the moment. Filmmaking becomes a part of the making of that history, the document that can stand in for memory. Yet, without the time to reflect, to let things settle, to look from many perspectives, how can one really make sense of such momentous events?

Flat Screens 9 will look at a recent film about the Egyptian Revolution and reflect upon our desire for the immediacy of the image.

Alisa Lebow is Senior Lecturer in Screen Media at Brunel University, also a filmmaker, curator, and film theorist, specialising in documentary film.

This is the penultimate Flat Screens, and the last will be on April 4^th, with a grand finale and the wonderful Daniel Edelstyn and Hilary Powell presenting their new feature How To Re-Establish A Vodka Empire.

Flat Screens 8: another superb and timely free film & feast event to nourish the mind, heart and body…

YES

Written and Directed by Sally Potter; with Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian and Sam Neill; UK; 2004; 100 mins

www.yesthemovie.co.uk

Preceded by a surprise short film; and with a filmic gift publication for all, in the spirit of the season…

Presented by writer, curator and editor Gareth Evans

We are delighted to invite you to join us at the coming 8^th Flat Screens film, food & conversation event on Wednesday 7^th December 2011, from 7 – 9.30pm…

There will be another wonderful feast, thanks this time to the excellent Alberto, who will present his delicious Pasta e Fagioli with homemade bread, a most warming winter fare. So please attend, ready to partake, and do bring what you would like to share for dessert and/or drink. Thank You.

Due to the nature of the space, booking for this event is essential. 

Please RSVP to info@fugitiveimages.org.uk / Studio75 is located at 75 Hebden Court, Laburnum Street, Haggerston E2 8BG; www.studio75.org.uk/map.html

Sally Potter: I started writing YES in the days following the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York City. I felt an urgent need to respond to the rapid demonisation of the Arabic world in the West and to the parallel wave of hatred against the United States. I asked myself the question: so what can a filmmaker do in such an atmosphere of hate and fear? What are the stories that need to be told?

I began by writing an argument between two lovers, one a man from the Middle East (the Lebanon), the other a woman from the West (Irish-American) at a point where their love affair has become an explosive war-zone, with the differences in their backgrounds starting to cast a long shadow over their intimacy…

Critics say it is…

strange and brilliant (The Guardian)

a breathtaking visual adventure (Salon)

bold, vibrant and impassioned (Los Angeles Times)

cause for amazement and celebration (Independent on Sunday)

a life-affirming film… if 9/11 really has ‘changed everything’, then YES, with its timeless romance, reminds us that life and love go on (The Daily Star, Lebanon). 

And so, towards the end of a challenging year, just say YES on 7^th December…

at Espacio Enter Canarias

Black Duck are showing The Delmarva Chicken Of Tomorrow at Espacio Enter Canarias, 17-20 of November 2011. 

full program here

This event is now FULL, to reserve a seat on the waiting list please email info@fugitiveimages.org.uk

Flat Screens 7: another incredible, timely but not secret film (this time)

…But not seen here for a long time. This is wrong and is being remedied here, now…

Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

Directed by Alain Tanner; written with John Berger; Switzerland; 1976; 1 hour 56 mins; Subtitled

With short readings from John Berger’s work and a free 96pp catalogue for all attendees, examining John Berger’s life and work, with original writings by Berger, Michael Ondaatje, Geoff Dyer, Anne Michaels etc…www.johnberger.org

 Presented by writer, curator and editor Gareth Evans 

We are delighted to ask you to join us at the 7th Flat Screens screening &conversation on Wednesday 9th November 2011, from 7 – 9.30pm.

Lasse will be there to make a most amazing feast, his Swedish specialty, Jansons Temptation, for everyone. We will provide the savory dish, so please be hungry, and bring what you would like to share for dessert and/or drink. Thank You.

Due to the nature of the space, booking for this event is essential.

Please RSVP to: info@fugitiveimages.org.uk / Studio75 is located at 75 Hebden Court, Laburnum Street, Haggerston E2 8BG; www.studio75.org.uk/map.html

Gareth thinks this is one of the greatest films of the late 20th century – ceaselessly relevant, empathetic, true to life and imagination at the same time. Effortlessly played, written and directed, it’s both a joy and an ongoing inspiration.

Pauline Kael (late of the New Yorker) says… "There are eight key characters in Jonah,

all in their twenties or thirties, and all seeking solutions to the problems brought to general consciousness by the events of 1968… Each of the eight characters is a utopian of some sort, except for the disillusioned former activist, Max… Each of these people is autonomous, looks for his own answers, and acts upon them, and together, the film suggests, they can give birth to a Jonah who will have the acumen to connect their visions…

Critics say it is… an exhilarating film with characters that are filled with life and who

refuse to become trapped in endless dreams that can never come true… a heady experience following their agile ruminations on time, language and perception, deftly superimposed on a film that pleases visually and formally… the performances are so thoroughly integrated with the material that I'm not sure where performances begin and the work of the director and the writers leaves off. The entire cast is splendid.

Lasse will present "i am here' as part of City Portraits panel, at Kings College, London.

Featuring both artists and academics, the panel discussion accompanying the City Portraits exhibition will focus both on the original project and its results, and on wider issues of ethics, representation and recognition in visual and other research. What are the possibilities afforded by representations of the sort featured in the City Portraits project and related installations; do they challenge existing understandings of how people should be represented in social and cultural research; and can they contribute positively to participants' sense of themselves and their surroundings, to their sense of place?

Panelists are:

Paul Sweetman is a Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media & Creative Industries at King's College London. He is a founder member and co-convenor of the British Sociological Association's Visual Sociology Study Group, and co-editor of Picturing the Social Landscape (Routledge 2004). He has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Visual Studies since 2008, and a member of the Editorial Board of Sociology between 2003 and 2005.

Laura Hensser is a British Photographer who graduated from UCA Farnham with a BA in Photography in 2008. She has been the recipient of the MI 2 (Prime Minister's Initiative Fund) to make work at the NID (National Institute of Design) in Ahmedabad, India. Laura has exhibited internationally and in the UK, including as part of the group exhibition 'Miscellaneous'. Recently Laura has been working on a photographic project called 'City Portraits' under the CCI and Cultural Olympiad.

Lasse Johansson (Fugitive Images) works with film, photography and installation in order to explore issues around the everyday and the formation of place, with special interest in public spaces and the identities they give rise to.

Alison Rooke (Goldsmiths) is a visual sociologist whose teaching and research is concerned with the dynamics of participation in the city brought about- through arts based urban interventions, urban planning, research and evaluation as well as informal spaces of citizenship and community. Alison works in partnership with a range of arts organisations and institutions developing collaborative approaches to research and evaluation.

http://rebelliousmediaconference.org/

Just Doing It: Women Documentary Makers and Social / Cultural Change
 
The single most welcome development in contemporary film-making, whatever the genre, has been the steady rise of exceptional women film-makers. If the numbers game still reflects a startlingly uneven playing field, what is in no doubt is the striking relevance and formal / aesthetic / thematic innovation that these makers are bringing to their medium and chosen concerns. Here, three leading international practitioners present their work in the context of documentary film's exponential rise, spread and relevance.
 
Emily James is a campaigning documentarist, whose acclaimed short films have explored a wide range of key issues. Her recent feature - Just Do It - tracking a benignly embedded year with direction action climate campaigns - was released in July.
www.emily-james.com <http://www.emily-james.com/> ; www.justdoitfilm.com <http://www.justdoitfilm.com/>
 
Manu Luksch is an artist and digital-social activist. Her CCTV-sourced feature 'Faceless', starring Tilda Swinton, pioneered a found-footage radicalisation of urban space. She has recently created 'function creep', about waterways and utopian alternatives.
www.manuluksch.com <http://www.manuluksch.com/> ; www.ambienttv.net <http://www.ambienttv.net/> ; www.function-creep.com <http://www.function-creep.com/>
 
Andrea Luka Zimmermann was a founding member of media collective Vision Machine. She has just completed 'Prisoner of War', a disturbing feature about the costs of American militarism and is developing 'Estate', a major project on inner-city public housing.
www.fugitiveimages.org.uk <http://www.fugitiveimages.org.uk/>
 
Gareth Evans is a writer, editor and curator.
 

A UK preview, presented by writer, curator and critic Gareth Evans.

We are delighted to ask you to join us at the 6^th Flat Screens screening & conversation on September 21^st  7 – 9pm. Therese will be there to repeat her most amazing feast, making free Pizza in her portable Pizza oven. We provide all ingredients, please be hungry, and bring what you like to have for dessert or drink.

Sorry, the event is now fully booked.

info@fugitiveimages.org.uk, Studio 75 is located at 75 Hebden Court, Laburnum Street, Haggerston E2 8BG

For, “those who cannot learn form history are doomed to repeat it.”

George Santayana

Critics say this film is:

 "A poignant portrait of an uncompromising artist who believed in the power of music as a tool for social and political change.”

"An essential portrait of an artist who ought to be far better known."


"Enthralling and fascinating! That voice - it's so beautiful and soulful and tenderly ironic. Go see this film."


“A remarkable chronicle of one man's pursuit of justice through music in the 20th Century while serving as a lesson for the 21^st."


Who himself said about one of my favourite songs, that “this song is about the philosophy of all songs”…

He loved John Wayne, and was “possessed by the American fantasy and dream he saw projected on the Hollywood screen.”

And, “by the time of his death the FBI had a dossier on him that was over 400 pages long.”

This event is now FULL, to reserve a seat on the waiting list please email info@fugitiveimages.org.uk

Flat Screens 5: Top Secret

We are delighted to ask you to join us at the 5^th Flat Screens screening & conversation on July27th  7 – 9pm.

Booking for this event is essential. info@fugitiveimages.org.uk

Writer, curator and producer Gareth Evans will introduce the screening (of another film than his own):

Would you like to come and see a surprise 90 minute film made in 2010 and as yet unseen in this country beyond one screening?

Described by international critics as....

"Stunningly beautiful. I don’t know how you can put more into a film, or make one that’s more deeply moving."

"An extraordinary film about the unknown and the unknowable."

"Such a moving masterpiece... a philosophical treatise that is as stunning to the eye as it is disturbing to the brain... I was enthralled. So was the audience around me."

“may just be the most profound movie I have ever seen."

Looking forward to seeing you!

Shoreditch Festival 2011 hosts the Floating Cinema

The Floating Cinema will reside outside Shoreditch Trust's Waterhouse Restaurant for five days as part of Shoreditch Festival 2011, hosting expert film history tours with screen historian Ian Christie (Saturday & Sunday) and featuring onboard artists' film screenings each evening.

Fugitive Images screening evening, 6-9pm 

Since 2009 the artist collaboration Fugitive Images has used their home, Haggerston & Kingsland Estate, as a starting point for a series of projects reflecting on the rapid changes taking place in the local area. After years of neglect the estate has been transformed into a flagship regeneration project. The old estate is scheduled for complete demolition by 2012 only to immediately reappear in a new guise; the mixed dwelling combining luxury flats with social housing in a high-density development.

For this Floating Cinema event Fugitive Images will screen some of their short films shot on the estate during its slow 'shutting down' and talk about their body of work including the striking photo installation I AM HERE clearly visible from nearby Laburnum Boat Club.

There will be a walk through the estate, and background on teh 'i am here' proect on July the 17th, at 4pm. everyone welcome.

Flat Screens 3

We are delighted to ask you to join us for tea and home baked cake at the 3rd Flat Screens screening & conversation on July 13^th 7 – 9pm. FREE

Please rsvp as there is limited seating via Studio 75, Hebden Court, and info@studio75.org.uk

Looking forward to seeing you!

Selected scenes from PUBLIC HOUSING, Frederick Wiseman, 1997

+ the main feature

DARK DAYS, Marc Singer, 2000

Dark Days

Near Penn Station, next to the Amtrak tracks, squatters have been living for years. Marc Singer goes underground to live with them, and films this "family." A dozen or so men and one woman talk about their lives: horrors of childhood, jail time, losing children, being coke-heads. They scavenge, they've built themselves sturdy one-room shacks; they have pets, cook, chat, argue, give each other haircuts. A bucket is their toilet. Leaky overhead pipes are a source of water for showers. They live in virtual darkness. During the filming, Amtrak gives a 30-day eviction notice. (Written by jhailey)

Fugitive Images

Thoughts on a future where exclusivity and exclusion should surely be indefensible; an evening with Fugitive Images and guests.

Since 2009 the artist collaboration Fugitive Images has used their home, Haggerston & Kingsland Estate, as a starting point for a series of projects reflecting on the rapid changes taking place in the local area. After years of neglect the estate has been transformed into a flagship regeneration project. The old estate is scheduled for complete demolition by 2012 only to immediately reappear in a new guise; the mixed dwelling combining luxury flats with social housing in a high-density development.

For the event Fugitive Images will screen their short film I KNOW IT IS NOT A PALACE and talk about their photo installation I AM HERE

To further explore our work at and the ongoing regeneration of Haggerston & Kingsland Estate they have invited two guest that recently have conducted extended researched on these issues.

David Roberts
Urban Studies Masters student and Architectural Design PhD candidate

"My interest lies in the instability and possibility of public art in social change. Has I AM HERE opened a new dialogue between residents and their city? Has a symbol of defiance inspired an unfolding culture of empowerment and protest? How can this transformative potential continue as residents negotiate their future?"

Therese L Henningsen
Anthropologist

"My research follows residents on Haggerston West and Kingsland Estates in order to examine an apparent givenness of a built environment at a moment of imminent transition. How do the residents perceive the changes to the spaces in which they live? How do they understand the reasons for the transition and what are their hopes, fears and dreams for the new rooms and roofs to be called 'home'."

An evening with John Smith in person!

We are delighted to ask you to join us for tea and home baked cake at the second Flat Screens screening & conversation on May 29^th,

from 7 - 9pm. FREE

Please rsvp as there is limited seating via Studio 75, Hebden Court, and info@studio75.org.uk

Looking forward to seeing you!

John Smith was born in Walthamstow, East London in 1952 and studied film at the Royal College of Art. Inspired by the Structural Materialist ideas which dominated British artists' filmmaking during his formative years, but also fascinated by the immersive power of narrative and the spoken word, he has developed a body of work which deftly subverts the perceived boundaries between documentary and fiction, representation and abstraction. Drawing upon the raw material of everyday life, Smith's meticulously crafted films rework and transform reality, playfully exploring and exposing the language of cinema. Since 1972 John Smith has made over fifty film, video and installation works that have been shown in cinemas, art galleries and on television around the world and awarded major prizes at many international film festivals.

Hackney Marshes [30min] 1978
Amongst other things Hackney Marshes is a document of public housing 43 years on from Housing Problems. It eloquently depicts the High Rise Phase and its contingent problems. This naively rolled out programme prioritized high density, at the time considered as the universal solution to the problem of public housing.
In addition Hackney Marshes is a film that plays with visual representation. John Smith continuously undermines taken for granted truths and simple solutions and invites the viewer to be critical of the images they are presented with.

The Girl Chewing Gum [12min] 1976
"In relinquishing the more subtle use of voice-over in television documentary, the film draws attention to the control and directional function of that practice: imposing, judging, creating an imaginary scene from a visual trace. This 'Big Brother' is not only looking at you but ordering you about as the viewer's identification shifts from the people in the street to the camera eye overlooking the scene" Michael Maziere, 'Undercut' magazine 1984

Blight [14 min] 1994-96

Blight was made in collaboration with the composer Jocelyn Pook. It revolves around the building of the M11 Link Road in East London, which provoked a long and bitter campaign by local residents to protect their homes from demolition. The images in the film record some of the changes which occurred in the area over a two-year period, from the demolition of houses through to the start of motorway building work. The soundtrack incorporates natural sounds associated with these events together with speech fragments taken from recorded conversations with local people.

Although it is entirely constructed from records of real events, Blight is not a straightforward documentary. The film exploits the ambiguities of its material to produce new meanings and metaphors, frequently fictionalizing reality through framing and editing strategies. The emotive power of music is used in the film to overtly aid this invention.

+ surprise film

We are delighted to ask you to join us for tea and home baked cake at the first Flat Screens screening & conversation on April 20^th, from 6.30 - 9.30pm. FREE

Please rsvp as there is limited seating via Studio 75, Hebden Court, and info@studio75.org.uk

Looking forward to seeing you!

Towers in the Sky

The Tower Block has featured in many works of literature and films such as G.J. Ballard's novel High Rise (1975), Haneke's Benny's Video (1992), Rose's Candyman (1992), etc . It has often been used as a setting for stories with dark undertones of violence and social breakdown. Curiously non-fiction work has reproduced this kind of response as well. Nowadays, where tower blocks built by councils are narrated as failed social experiments; increasingly the people inhabiting them have become equated as being failed people, too. There we see the peculiar force of representation and popular imagination.

This first screening in a series of 10 explores another aspect of the High Rise, looking locally as well as internationally. How does the High Rise, and the people living within it, fare in a different context? The two films are chosen in order to pose questions around belonging and exclusion.

Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (30min, 2004)

For his film 'Journey to the Lower World' Marcus Coates filmed himself performing a shamanic ritual for residents of a Liverpool tower block scheduled for demolition. Wearing antlers and with a deer skin strapped to his back, the film focuses on the response of the audience to the live performance - caught between scepticism and belief, spoof and sincerity.

High Rise (Um Lugar ao Sol) by Gabriel Mascaro (71min, 2009)

What does it mean to have a penthouse in poverty-filled Brazil? During the film, penthouse residents open up their homes to reveal their thoughts on social inequality, politics, and the world that surrounds them, as well as discussing more intimate subjects such as their desires, fears, insecurities, prejudices and personal histories.

Through dialogues with the owners of penthouses in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Recife, High-Rise explores the social and cultural mindset of the elite, and the phenomenon of the 'verticalization' of the Brazilian cityscape. This is a film about height, status and power.

we will have a presentation and Q&A at the wonderful Pages of Hackney Bookshop.

Early in 2008, three months after the vote to transfer the Haggerston and Kingsland estate from Hackney council to L&Q housing association we began our work at the estate.

Tonight we will talk about the process that led up to the publishing of Estate. The journey started via our I am here project, a photo installation where we exchanged 67 bright orange boards covering voids units at the estate with large-scale photographs of past and current residents. From there we developed our work by route of a number of presentations at TINAG, Urban Encounters, Tate Britain, and texts for Homecultures and Streetsigns. Estate emerges out of this long-term engagement on Haggerston & Kingsland estate.

We will also show some short excerpts of film material we have started to shoot with residents on the estate.

These events are well-attended so do rsvp to info@pagesofhackney.co.uk or 020 8525 1452 to ensure your place.

A selection of videoworks curated by Art Funkl, Red Nomade and black duck.

The Reel Health Stories shortlist, including Bruce & I and The Ramp, will be screened on 2nd March 2011at an evening event about the NHS. Professor Michael Stewart of the UCL Anthropology Department is organising the event, which will be held at the AV Hill Medical Lecture Theatre, UCL Main Campus, South Quad 18.30- 20.00 Doors open 18.00.

Apologies for the short notice, but please contact Prof Stewart if you would like to attend m.stewart@ucl.ac.uk

STONES AND SCISSORS

Stones and scissors: exploration of buildings, structures, places and histories; the act of cutting, editing and retelling. Studio 75 artists Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Gillian McIver and Nazir Tanbouli present a selection of their moving image works.

this event has limited access due to to the size of the space, please rsvp by email info@studio75.org.uk

Nazir Tanbouli

Basement Diary

A post-disaster movie. A visually poetic and striking film made by the painter Nazir Tanbouli, evokes post disaster alienation and trauma.

Baladi

Stop frame animation; a portrait of home and locality using everyday objects. "Baladi" in Egyptian means local, from home - and the drumming here is "baladi" music and the dance the objects are doing is known as "baladi" dance ...

Andrea Luka Zimmerman

The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow

Between dream and nightmare, The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow is a traversal of here and elsewhere, first and third world; a fairytale of production, resources, capitalism, globalisation, refuse and refusal: The Delmarva Chicken of Tomorrow is a film not about the struggle to be seen, but about the struggle to see.

+Sponsored by Suppressed Policy Sportsmanship (something about the war)

by Joshua Oppenheimer

Gillian McIver

- a selection of very short works about places

Gauforum

Field recording of an unusual building in Weimar.

Crossings: Berlin: Gleim Tunnel

Traversing the fault lines of history.

The House on Sadovaya Street

A wander through the flat of the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov

Mosti: the Bridges of St Petersburg

A montage that mixes classic Russian film footage with my recorded material, fusing past and present in a representation of one of the principal motifs of St Petersburg.

Gillian McIver, Nazir Tanbouli, Lasse Johansson and Andrea Luka Zimmerman launch Studio75, a disused flat on Haggerston estate, on Hebdon court.

We were excited to launch Estate at the TINAG festival. What an amazing turn out. Thank you for coming!

Sunday 24 October, 4-6pm at Hanbury Hall, in the Rosa Luxemburg Hall

The pursuit of public Housing provision was one of the 20^th century's redeeming contributions. Yet, in the first decade of the 21^st century, public housing as an ideal is a contradictory territory resulting from policies that value entrepreneurial charities or a subsidised private sector over state funded and administered housing.

Estate is a timely contribution to the debates entangling millions of individuals and countless neighbourhoods. The starting point is a visual essay on the Haggerston West & Kingsland estates in Hackney, east London, in the process of demolition and re-building. The 56 photographs document the spaces left behind when people were moved out. Despite residents living in limbo for over 30 years as refurbishment plans were continuously proposed, shelved and re-proposed, the images highlight their innovative solutions to the difficulties of continuing to live while an idea and a set of buildings were being abandoned around them.

Texts from Paul Hallam, Cristina Cerulli and Victor Buchli contextualise the artists' project through a set of questions resulting in a work that refuses to settle, creating dialogue between photography, archaeology of the recent past, autobiography and critical theory.

The launch:

The launch event will reflect such a hybrid approach. Thus we will start off with a visual engagement, by screening three short films about housing and more importantly the people living in them. The films will enrich and stimulate the panel debate, which takes a more direct political and theoretical approach to the current state of affairs. Our panelists are (apart from Lasse and Andrea), Neal Purvis, independent housing advisor, Ruth-Marie Tunkara, resident and community developer, and Cristina Cerulli, architect. Before the debate is opened up to the floor, we have asked the members of the panel to briefly expand on the following questions:

1) Public or Affordable Housing - does it matter?
2) In order to create dynamic & safe affordable housing environments, should we prioritize the formation of a more equal society through social reform or prioritize the construction of 'estates' designed in a manner aimed at controlling behaviour through surveillance and gated style of communities etc?

Screening:
Housing Problems 1935 [13 min]

By Arthur Elton E.H. Anstey
Housing Problems is considered a seminal film because it was the first documentary to have the subjects looking and talking straight onto the camera. Yet it also reflects the attitudes of that time considering the poor as somewhat a race apart. We choose it to introduce the idea of perception and image production as a major component in how poverty is seen, compounded and perhaps even produced.

Hackney Marshes [30min] 1978

By John Smith
Amongst other things Hackney Marshes is a document of public housing 43 years on from Housing Problems. It eloquently depicts the High Rise Phase and its contingent problems. This naively rolled out programme prioritized high density, at the time considered as the universal solution to the problem of public housing. In addition Hackney Marshes is a film that plays with visual representation. John Smith continuously undermine taken for granted truths and simple solutions and invites the viewer to be critical of the images they are presented with.

Work In Progress [10 min]

Andrea Luka Zimmerman & Lasse Johansson
This will not only bring us up to the present but also introduce Haggerston & Kingsland Estates. The excerpts is a reflection on the ambiguity of the changes going on at the Estate as well as visually connect with some of the images in Estate.

The Ramp won 1st prize at Reelhealthstories, judged by Ken Loach adn David Morrissey.

Bruce & I won runner up prize.