Long Take: Workers’ Film a Century Apart, Tenants in Revolt
Stevens, S. 2026. Long Take: Workers’ Film a Century Apart, Tenants in Revolt.
Stevens, S. 2026. Long Take: Workers’ Film a Century Apart, Tenants in Revolt.
| Title | Long Take: Workers’ Film a Century Apart, Tenants in Revolt |
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| Creators | Stevens, S. |
| Description | Screening 1 Tenants in Revolt Tenants in Revolt British Film Unit, 1939, 21 mins Tenants in Revolt captures the activities of the 1930s Stepney Tenants' Defence League, who organised in response to rising rents and slum-like conditions in East London. Documentation of rent strikes is accompanied by commentary from campaign organisers Maurice 'Tubby' Rosen and Clara Garrett, who led the tenants' committee of the Flower & Dean Street tenement protests. We’re Still Here Melissa Herman, 2021, 68 mins London's housing is under attack. As developers - hand in glove with local councils - demolish necessary public housing to replace it with unaffordable apartments, more people are now standing up for their rightful place in their city. Filmed over four years, We're Still Here covers the protests of Focus E15 families, keyworkers in West Ham, and the Grenwell Tower fire residents. Discussion with historian Mike Berlin, community organiser and documentary filmmaker Melissa Herman, housing activists Truus Jansen and Aysen Dennis, artist and researcher Matthias Kispert, and artist filmmaker and lecturer Samuel Stevens. |
| Collaborators | Kispert, M. |
| Date | 04 Mar 2026 |
| Editors | Stevens, S. |