The Neighbourhood Cotch Club envisions a space that centres marginalised voices by opening the door to various visual accolades.
Having previously showcased the screening of Can I Live? by Fehinti Balogun and Patagonia’s We The Power, we will now be looking at Estate, A Reverie by director Andrea Luka Zimmerman*,* which looks at the political resistance of a community to be seen past the boundaries of class, gender, ability and disability and geography.
We hope to create a safe space that allows often unheard voices to have their say on the issues that we are facing as communities and neighbourhoods, both on the local and global scale. We also hope to create a space that diminishes the impact of classism, discrimination and colonial perspectives in the neighbourhood dialogue.
We invite friends and neighbours to join members of the CIVIC SQUARE team for open and honest conversation about the themes raised in the film and how we can start from wherever we are to find a sense of hope and agency to respond to the challenges ahead together.
The film screening will start at 5pm and run for 83 minutes, followed by a 30 minute discussion. Drinks and snacks will be available.
Filmed over the course of 7 years, Estate, A Reverie looks at a marginalised housing estate in London boarded up and slated for demolition. The film follows the community’s dramatised re-enactment of their identities with a focus on landscape and architecture. The film proposes a question on how we can resist looking at communities through the narrow lens of class, gender, geography and disability.
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