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.