Estate, a Reverie
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- Year
- 2015
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 85 mins
- Format
- HD
- Director
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Andrea Luka Zimmerman
- Producer
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman
- Executive Producer
- Gareth Evans
- Editor
- Ariadna Fatja-Vilas
- Screenwriter
- Adam Rosenthal, Gareth Evans, David Roberts
- Director of Photography
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Taina Galis, Lasse Johansson
- Production Designer
- Ann Louise Buckley
- Sound
- David Cunningham
- Music
- Olivia Chaney
- Filmmaker Statement
- ESTATE, A REVERIE has not been made about this community, but has been made from it. Through a variety of filmic registers and strategies, I seek to capture the genuinely utopian quality of the last few years of the buildings’ existence, a period when, because demolition was inevitable, a sense of the possible, of the emergence of new, but of course time-specific, social and organizational relationships developed, a fresh understanding of how the residents might occupy the spaces of the estate. The film focuses on the ‘structure’ of its eponymous architecture not only because it is where we live, but also how we live. It is about how we belong in the world and what structures of meaning exist to define personal and social lives.
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Fugitive Images
19 Weavers HouseDunston Road
London E8 4FW
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