IT'S ALL CHANGED ROUND HERE (2021)

Filmed entirely during the Covid pandemic from October 2020 – February 2021, IACRH is an experimental documentary which focuses on the district of East London, looking specifically at the current changes gentrification and globalization have had or will have on its landscape, architecture and community. This film was created as part of my degree with everything including editing, photography and music done solely. I was born in Romford near Essex but my relatives lived throughout East London specifically located in Plaistow, Poplar and East Ham for whom I would visit exhaustively during my childhood. Even from a young age I took note of a drastically changing East London, forever asking questions about the past and looking at the family photos from bygone times. Through this film I attempt to observe and preserve these locations from my childhood, as well as giving my own poetic spoken word on each scenario, before they’re inevitably changed by re-generation forever. My poetry and spoken word is inspired heavily by the works of William S Burroughs, Genesis P Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and Jim Morrison (The Doors). The film had a screening at the Romford Film Festival 2022 as part of their UK Short Film Showcase as well as several intimate screenings across the Becontree Estate during the Coated In Trails Of Wisteria Exhibiton celebrating 100 years of the Becontree Housing Estate.