London East

The program:

1977

Regi: William English
1977
8mm to digital
8min

Grunwick’s strike action, London 1977. The Battle of Lewisham New Cross, London 13th August 1977. Music: Horizontal Hold by This Heat. Shot on 8mm.

Fatimas Letter 

Regi: Alia Syed
1992
16mm
21min

The film is shot almost entirely at Whitechapel Underground Station in East London. A woman remembers her past by faces she sees while travelling on the Underground. A personal documentary around journeys, memories and watching.

Wax 

Regi: Paul Rodgers
1990
16mm
14min

23 people at Arnold Circus animated around an old bandstand, an object is constructed by the alchemist, skulls, a weathered gravestone, a heart in a hand, timeless fixtures amongst death and the magic, and the life.

MM 

Regi: William Raban
2002
16mm
13min

Taking the Millenium Dome as a potent architectural symbol of the new millennium, MM is a meditation upon time reflecting the changing landscape in London’s East End.

Nocturne

Regi: Emily Richardson
2002
16mm
5min

Shot in deserted streets around the East End of London and Docklands, there is a feeling of an echoic city filled with shadows that manifests itself there at night.