Filmed over 7 years, Zimmerman’s Estate, A Reverie offers an intimate insight into the community of the Haggerston public housing estate in London in the years prior to its demolition. Made in close collaboration with the estate’s residents, the film looks to avoid the statistical lens housing estates are so often viewed through. Zimmerman’s film emphasises the ‘spirited existence’ of this community, whilst quietly drawing attention to the underlying neglect by wider social and political forces.
Also the result of close collaboration, in Mikhail Karikis’ Children of Unquiet a group of local children take over an abandoned geothermal power plant. Set within an area of Tuscany known as the Devil’s Valley, this failed modernist project stands as a metaphor for the economic and political disempowerment inflicted upon a younger generation by the changes of capitalist logic. Yet through their aural and physical interventions in the landscape, the children draw upon this sense of disquiet to challenge prevailing narratives, evoking an alternative, more hopeful vision for the future.
This double-bill screening will be followed by a conversation between the artists, who will explore how these films relate to themes raised by the exhibition Unquiet Moments: Capturing the Everyday.
This event is part of The Courtauld and Somerset House collaborative digital programme which is supported by
