Sunless Haven - Open City Film Festival Opening Night
Clark, G. 2024. Sunless Haven - Open City Film Festival Opening Night. London 06 - 11 May 2025
Clark, G. 2024. Sunless Haven - Open City Film Festival Opening Night. London 06 - 11 May 2025
| Creators | Clark, G. |
|---|---|
| Description | “Animating a host of dispersed fragments from historical documents to architectural remnants and the river, Sunless Haven looks at the docklands as a resonant chamber connecting disparate worlds.” (George Clark) George Clark worked with historians Simeon Koole and Ben Mechen, sound artist Jol Thoms and performance artist Yarli Allison to imagine the experiences in, around and through the London Docklands at the turn of the 20th century. “Woven into the film are attempts to understand the docklands as a meeting place between different ecologies, enclosures and epochs, as a point of entanglement of the city and world. The film looks at ways to describe and embody these enmeshed histories from the legacy of police persecution of seaman boarding houses and Indian dockworkers known as lascars to the traces of early Chinatown in Limehouse and the experiences of London by Ayahs and Amahs, predominantly Chinese or Indian nannies brought back from the colonies and abandoned in the city after the voyage.” (George Clark) Followed by a conversation with George Clark, Simeon Koole and May Adadol Ingawanij. |
| Year | 24 Apr 2024 |
| 2024 | |
| Project | Sunless Haven - Within Worlds: London Docklands and the Phenomenology of Global Thinking |
| Sunless Haven | |
| Funder | AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) |
| CREAM at the University of Westminster | |
| Web address (URL) | https://opencitylondon.com/events/opening-night-sunless-haven/ |