NINE YEARS - A WALKING FILM

This is a collaborative film project between myself and Nicholas Middleton that we’ve been slowly making since 2012 that captures footage from the Olympics through to Brexit where London’s relationship with Europe was recaliberating.

This documentary is our love song to London scored with the ambient sounds of the city mixed with stories from four European artists (Franko B, Noemi Lakmaier, Xavier de Sousa and Vlatka Horvat) who relocated to London at different stages in their lives and practice.

The film footage walks us from the south east to the east of London over the course of nine years. It starts from what was the Heygate Estate around 2012 in the Elephant and Castle and through to Beckton Alps, the spoil heap in East London near London City Airport, where there was once a dry ski slope opened by the Princess of Wales.  The walk includes footage of the mile long walk under the Thames filmed walking through the Rotherhithe Tunnel with a steady-cam. These spaces speak to our lives as artists in the city as well as to a narrative about the constant development of a changing landscape.