Estate, a Reverie, 83mins, 2015 (Trailer) from Andrea Luka Zimmerman on Vimeo.
Nominated for the 2015 Grierson Awards, Best Newcomer Documentary
The story of the Haggerston Estate is the story of social housing in Britain - Tom Overton in City Metric, New Statesman
Knowing the previous work of its creators, I believe this project will achieve something very significant for the times we are living in. It will remind us - and how appropriate this is for the medium of film - that, both politically and humanly, the past is not behind us, not obsolescent, but beside us and urgent - John Berger
Estate is a deeply moving portrait of a community struggling to survive in a boarded-up London public housing project, long slated for demolition. Multilayered and profound, Andrea Zimmerman immerses us in a dreamlike lost-world of misfits, outcasts and survivors whom she films with love and aching tenderness. Her groundbreaking approach to cinema - at once collaborative and performative - creates a work of rare intimacy, a lyrical and gripping vision of the loneliness and disempowerment that haunts life even in the world’s wealthiest cities. - Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing)
There is a generosity of spirit at work in the film that captivates from the getgo - less a political polemic more a poetical portrait of times-fast-going. An enthralling and uplifting celebration of the resilience of humanity in flux. Andrew Kotting
Andrea Zimmerman's extraordinary film, Estate: A Reverie, which documents the last days of a Hackney housing estate, is both profound and original. Having herself lived on the estate for many years, her tender portrait exhibits deep feelings of community and solidarity - sentiments almost entirely missing from our contemporary political vocabulary. She has given Hackney back, at last, some of its wayward heart - Ken Worpole
Poignant, and real, felt and important… a paean to survival, dignity, solidarity and community in the face of their erosion; political in a quiet but most urgent way, and personal - Uriel Orlow
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Estate, a Reverie
a film by Andrea Luka Zimmerman (83 mins, 2015)
produced by Fugitive Images
songs by Olivia Chaney
A spirited celebration of extraordinary everyday humanity.
Filmed over seven years, Estate, a Reverie reveals and celebrates the resilience of people who are profoundly overlooked by media representations and wider social responses. Interweaving intimate portraits with historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes, Estate, a Reverie asks how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography…
Estate, a Reverie / estatefilm.co.uk
Produced by Fugitive Images
Directed by Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Filmed by Taina Galis, Lasse Johansson, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Creative Consultant: Gareth Evans / Edited by Ariadna Fatjo-Vilas
Written by Adam Rosenthal, Gareth Evans, David Roberts
Songs composed and performed by Olivia Chaney / Sound by David Cunningham
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