Estate, a Reverie

Synopsis

A spirited celebration of extraordinary everyday humanity. Filmed over seven years, ESTATE, A REVERIE reveals and celebrates the resilience of residents who are profoundly overlooked and stereotyped by media representations and wider social responses. Interweaving intimate portraits with the residents’ own historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes, the documentary poses the question as to how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography…
http://www.estatefilm.co.uk

Details

Year

2015

Type of film

Features

Running Time

85 mins

Format

HD

Director

Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Producer

Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Co-Producer

David Roberts

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.

Genre

• Woman Director

Production status

Complete

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Last updated 28th February 2019