Films 08
Guest Programme
The City Speaks
Total Running Time: 90 min
The City Speaks: A Film for Radio, is a multi-faceted portrayal of London created for radio, cinema and television, developed from an idea by Peter Ackroyd.
Artist filmmakers were commissioned to collaborate with radio writers to each produce a unique portrait of London. Responding to a narrative framework by writer Ackroyd, the artist and writer teams created a film in six sections:
Times / Places
Total Running Time: 90 min
The City Speaks: A Film for Radio, is a multi-faceted portrayal of London created for radio, cinema and television, developed from an idea by Peter Ackroyd.
Artist filmmakers were commissioned to collaborate with radio writers to each produce a unique portrait of London. Responding to a narrative framework by writer Ackroyd, the artist and writer teams created a film in six sections:
Times / Places
Sun 31st Aug.
1500 - 1630
Cineworld
The Films
Pushing
Film Director – Alnoor Dewshi
Writer – Lin Coghlan
A man leaves his apartment for the first time in two years. A veteran of the Gulf War, he pushes a fridge as an act of penance, revealing a dead heart inside.
i am not you are not me
Film Directors – Rosie Pedlow and Joe King
Writer – Mike Walker
An old man in the grip of dementia finds himself lost on Hackney’s busy Kingsland Road. Who is he? What is he trying to escape from?
Broken Chain
Film Director – Inge Blackman
Writer – Mark Norfolk
A man leaves prison after several years of incarceration. Will he clean up his act after years of crime and drug addiction? Or does he go back to his old ways?
Yalda
Film Director – Esther Johnson
Writer – Mehrdad Seyf
A colourful musical journey, mixing sumptuous imagery and vibrant text with a first-person voiceover, chronicling events from a woman’s tangled past of complex relationships with lovers and family.
Ayshe’s Tale
Film Director – William Raban
Writer – Alison Joseph
Set within the Turkish community of Dalston and Stoke Newington, Ayshe’s Tale celebrates the
multi-ethnic diversity of this part of East London. The film is a visual platform from which the monologues and dialogues of the radio play are expanded.
Make Your Way
Film Director – Sam Brady
Writer - Nick Warburton
Chris is at ease in the streets of the city. He’s keen and sharp and likely to make his way. But he never travels by underground. It unnerves him.
Image: Pushing
Pushing
Film Director – Alnoor Dewshi
Writer – Lin Coghlan
A man leaves his apartment for the first time in two years. A veteran of the Gulf War, he pushes a fridge as an act of penance, revealing a dead heart inside.
i am not you are not me
Film Directors – Rosie Pedlow and Joe King
Writer – Mike Walker
An old man in the grip of dementia finds himself lost on Hackney’s busy Kingsland Road. Who is he? What is he trying to escape from?
Broken Chain
Film Director – Inge Blackman
Writer – Mark Norfolk
A man leaves prison after several years of incarceration. Will he clean up his act after years of crime and drug addiction? Or does he go back to his old ways?
Image: Yalda
Yalda
Film Director – Esther Johnson
Writer – Mehrdad Seyf
A colourful musical journey, mixing sumptuous imagery and vibrant text with a first-person voiceover, chronicling events from a woman’s tangled past of complex relationships with lovers and family.
Ayshe’s Tale
Film Director – William Raban
Writer – Alison Joseph
Set within the Turkish community of Dalston and Stoke Newington, Ayshe’s Tale celebrates the
multi-ethnic diversity of this part of East London. The film is a visual platform from which the monologues and dialogues of the radio play are expanded.
Image: Make Your Way
Make Your Way
Film Director – Sam Brady
Writer - Nick Warburton
Chris is at ease in the streets of the city. He’s keen and sharp and likely to make his way. But he never travels by underground. It unnerves him.
