London East
1977 to 2002 in five east London films.
1977 William English (8mm to digital/8mins/1977)
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 Alia Syed (16mm /21mins/1992)
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 Paul Rodgers (16mm/14mins/1990)
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 William Raban (16mm/13min/2002 )
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 Emily Richardson (16mm/5mins/2002)
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.
Greg Pope. 