A special Capsule titled Housing Crisis split between two programmes of thematic shorts will highlight the importance of contemporary housing discussions.

Responding to the housing crises that gripped Dublin during the early 21st century, Not By Bricks Alone tells the story of the Fuzzy Belts, a public movement sweeping its way to an entirely more hopeful future.

NOT BY BRICKS ALONE

Responding to the housing crises that gripped Dublin during the early 21st century, Not By Bricks Alone tells the story of the Fuzzy Belts, a public movement sweeping its way to an entirely more hopeful future.

A poetic study of a place and the people who shape it, this work considers Cressingham Gardens, a housing estate in South London. Designed by Lambeth Council and their in-house architects led by Edward Hollamby, the early-1970s scheme is a landmark example of carefully formed, subtly detailed social housing designed around natural landscape and a community’s needs. Shot on 16mm film, an English garden is 30 minutes with a continuous voiceover. It is broken into three parts, each taking the voice of different people who have shaped the place - the architects, the residents, then the current local council - considering the past, present and possible future of the place. Each part takes a subtly different tone and form of cinematography, while the narrated script is entirely drawn from fragments of archive, whether from the words of Edward Hollamby, more recent testimony from residents of the estate, or from local council meeting minutes and press releases. With four decades of neoliberalism now deeply embedded into English culture, London’s built environment - shaped by economy and ideology as much as craft and time - is scarred by forces of gentrification. In a city where the financial holds more sway than other value systems, social housing such as Cressingham Gardens is increasingly precarious as developers and councils see them as ripe for “regeneration”, favouring a slash and burn policy of total demolition. 160 social housing estates have been demolished since 1997, with a further 35,000 homes - including Cressingham Gardens - currently at risk. In that period, 130,000 Londoners have been dispossessed, forced out of home, community, and often the city. While created with an outsiders vantage, this film stands in support of residents who are working to build their community and fight council-led dispossession.

AN ENGLISH GARDEN

The Housing Question&nbsp;takes its title from Friedrich Engels’ seminal 1872 texts addressing the severe housing shortages in his native Germany.&nbsp;Weaving together two architect’s social housing projects with their more legendary work in Sydney and Madrid, this project repopulates vacancy with the words of Engels and the resonant sounds and music of Saharawi survivors - more than 40 years in refugee camps. What do we want? When do we want it?

THE HOUSING QUESTION

The Housing Question takes its title from Friedrich Engels’ seminal 1872 texts addressing the severe housing shortages in his native Germany.

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HOUSING CRISIS - Film selection #1

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