50 Years of Artists' Film in Hackney

Screening with Q&A

Following on from his HHF talk about Hackney film locations (Sunday 10 May, 1pm), film curator and producer Gareth Evans hosts an evening of artists' films made in Hackney across the last 50 years. Moving from John Smith's Hackney Marshes - November 4th 1977 to Emily Richardson's Hackney Wick-focused Memo Mori and Andrew Kotting's canal-engined Swandown / Bunhill Fields Artefact, the programme makes its way through the borough on a pilgrimage of memory, recovery, lives lived and places lost. It arrives in Beck Road for Frances Scott's nine nine nine nine nine and concludes in Haggerston Park with Andrea Luka Zimmerman's pandemic portrait Shelter in Place. All the film-makers will be present and in conversation with Evans after the screening.

This was underpinned by the launch of 'Lines of the Hand' on the films, by Gareth Evans, Burley Fisher community press, where Evans writes about each of the films in the program.

My contribution is the 3 screen installation made during Covid19 in Haggerston Park, called Shelter In Place. We spoke about memory and changing landscapes, and how living and lived memory is replaced by manufactured narration. How to resist corporate erasures though corporeal and collective relations.