Estate: a reverie - documentary + Q&A with Director and others

Event Details

Time: January 10, 2015 from 2:30pm to 5pm
Location: Rio Cinema
Street: Kingsland High Street
City/Town: London E8 2PB
Website or Map: https://www.google.co.uk/maps…
Event Type: built, environment
Organized By: Rio / Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Latest Activity: Jan 8, 2015

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Event Description

Documentary tracking the passing of the Haggerston Estate (1938-2014) in Hackney and the utopian promise of social housing it offered, with an unruly celebration of extraordinary everyday humanity. Filmed over seven years, 'Estate: a reverie' seeks to reveal and celebrate the resilience of residents who are profoundly overlooked by media representations and wider social responses, interweaving intimate portraits with the residents' own historical re-enactments and dramatised scenes, the film asks how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability and through geography even ... Followed by Q&A with Director Andrea Luka Zimmerman and others.