Project Detail

Public House

Synopsis

In 2012, the Ivy House pub in Peckham was sold to property developers as part of the ongoing gentrification of south London. The locals opposed it. Unfolding from this scenario, the film weaves verbatim testament into folk operatic form with the Ivy House itself, embodied and imagined as a central character and inhabited by the memories of the generations who have passed through its doors. Sarah Turner films the community’s creative reanimation of the mourned pub through dance, poetry and song... which both records and creates a vision of social possibility... The activism that saved the pub is a metaphor for social and creative agency. This is not just a film about resistance; it is a film that itself refuses categorisation... a triumphant genre-blending documentary which turns community action into an exhilarating participatory opera. (London Film Festival)
Public House premiered in the documentary competition at the 2015 BFI London Film Festival and was nominated for the Grierson Award. The film has since been re-edited and remastered in a new version for wider audiences.

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Details

Year: 2016
Type of film: Features
Running time: 96 mins
Director: Sarah Turner
Producer: Sarah Turner
Editor: Sarah Turner
Screenwriter: Sarah Turner
Director of Photography: Sarah Turner, Matthew Walter
Sound: Sarah Turner
Principal cast: Featuring the extended community of the Ivy House pub SE15

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Sarah Turner

Sales Company

c/o Sarah Turner

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