RECLAIMING SPACE: Refuge

RECLAIMING SPACE is a series of three screening events alongside Four Corners' exhibition, 'A Story of Squatters'. The series explores themes of Queer, green, migrant and feminist spaces, and the intersections in-between them.

REFUGE

Thursday 26 February, 6.30-8.30pm, Four Corners First-Floor Studio

This evening of films examines the notion of finding refuge and community in different spaces.

Beginning with a council funded film tackling housing and pollution issues in 1970s Haringey, we visit the community-changing impact of a Bengali newspaper, then take a walk from the Old Kent Road to the Kent Coast with Amaal Said and her mother, stop off at some East London allotments, and end the evening with an apocalyptic-flooded vision of the Docklands.

What Future for Haringey? 1974

Documentary. Director: Andrew McTaggart. Run time: 33 min

Accessibility: With sound

Notun Din, 1989

Documentary. Director: Simon Ashdown. Run time: 11 min

Accessibility: With sound and captions

Open Country, 2025

Documentary. Director: Amaal Said. Run time: 13 min

Accessibility: With sound and captions

Two Hinges and a January King, 2000

Documentary. Director: Joe Rosen. Run time: 5 min

Accessibility: With sound and captions

Polly ll: Plan for a Revolution in the Docklands, 2006

Drama. Director: Anja Kirschner. Run time: 30 min

Accessibility: With sound

Some of these films contain language that some people may find offensive.

PLEASE NOTE: The screening is taking place in Four Corners' First-Floor Studio which is up two flights of stairs, so is not accessible to those with mobility issues.

For further access information, please visit our website here, or contact us at info@fourcornersfilm.co.uk if you have any queries.

Programme supported by Film Hub london, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery, www.filmlondon.org.uk/filmlondon

With many thanks to Film London FAN Fund for funding this series, as well as the following for their invaluable suggestions, support and advice: Helen de Witt, London Short Film Festival, Lux, MACE, BFI, Film & Video Umbrella, Laundrette Films, London’s Screen Archives.