Home – now, then and in between - Film screening @ BLOC cinema
When: Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Where: BLOC Cinema, ArtsOne, Mile End
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Screening of recent films by Charlotte Ginsborg and Liberty Smith addressing the role home plays in forming our sense of identity.
Home – now, then and in between
BLOC Arts One Building, Queen Mary University London, 1 Westfield Way, London, E1 4PD
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An evening at BLOC cinema presents films by Charlotte Ginsborg and Liberty Smith addressing the concept and role of home in forming our sense of identity, community and belonging. Poignant personal experiences are framed in the films through their political and social contexts as the effects of the housing crisis, Brexit and the aftermath of Covid take hold. Poetic and playful as documentaries, the films celebrate community and resilience, foregrounding intergenerational conversations as they explore the importance of memory in forming identity.
The screening will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with the filmmakers hosted by the writer and poet, Gabriel Gbadamosi
Our Future Our Past, Whisper It To Me, 2024, 60min
Director: Charlotte Ginsborg,
‘Our future our past, whisper it to me’ is written by and features residents of North Kent, (UK), who deliver spoken word poetry to camera to express their sense of belonging, home, and their thoughts on the future of the area as it undergoes a period of rapid regeneration. Their powerful performances are captured against the shifting rural and industrial landscapes, the swaths of new build housing, and epic views out across the Thames Estuary. Through intergenerational conversations, the film looks at the concerns facing post Brexit, post pandemic society in the UK. Told through often marginalised voices the participants are given creative agency to represent their thoughts and feelings as old meets new, and imaginations are encouraged to run free.
My Exploding House, 2024, 17min
Director: Liberty Smith
My Exploding House follows a quest to find the truth behind a thirty year old memory, along the way connecting the dots between family, community, the power of place and the concept of home.