aurora green
Tectonic
Just a reminder that the St Agnes short film is on in a few mins...
Squatting 70s style, BBC4 8 Feb
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Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
well this should be intresting
at least i might see a few people i remeber ... but to be honest from what i know this place was just full of nutters back then (fairly mauch as it is now)
i wonder if they will mention the house of the primal screamers... they sounded like a laugh
at least i might see a few people i remeber ... but to be honest from what i know this place was just full of nutters back then (fairly mauch as it is now)
i wonder if they will mention the house of the primal screamers... they sounded like a laugh
well much as it was good to see it on TV, it was so short as to be almost meaningless. any commissioning editor must see there's enough material for at least a one -hour doc, if not a series about squatting as a whole
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
well a lot of the squatters did opt out as they would have no influence on the final product
and also if you still live their it is perhaps not to great to go on a film about it
and also if you still live their it is perhaps not to great to go on a film about it
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
unnhhh... there are two rows of houses on villa road
only one side was knocked down
otherwise this room would be rather drafty
only one side was knocked down
otherwise this room would be rather drafty
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
the one metioned in the opening post and througout is about villa rd it's on wendsday
i didn't quite realise we were talking at cross purposes
i didn't quite realise we were talking at cross purposes
Shippou-Chan said:
i think we all started talking about the programme once it was on..
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
yeah ... it was a little hard to follow the conversation
newbie
undisambiguated
Shippou-Chan said:
Understandable, but it makes the final result rather incomplete, and this programme will become the accepted wisdom, for better or worse. I know a lot of people refused to have anything to do with it, but also know quite a few who've tried to prevent it becoming a parody. It's hard to know whether more people talking to them would have made a better programme (eg less emphasis on the screamers
) or just given more ammunition to sympatheticish-but-facile filmmakers who didn't have firsthand knowledge. Whatever, it is what it is, and I imagine they've updated the version I saw to recognise the eviction in St Agnes.
aurora green
Tectonic
Dubversion said:
I agree.
Although I think my expectations were way too high.
aurora green
Tectonic
Did anyone else see tonights film? Seemed like a total stitch up to me. I mean, was that woman from Lambeth council or what? She actually used the word 're-vitalise'.
Was very sad to see the street being demolished.
Was very sad to see the street being demolished.
zenie
>^^<
aurora green said:Did anyone else see tonights film? Seemed like a total stitch up to me. I mean, was that woman from Lambeth council or what? She actually used the word 're-vitalise'.
Was very sad to see the street being demolished.
Very sad tbh
Blaming the drugs on the squatters when people have seen the crack dealers with their own eyes fish drugs hidden in the bins to deal out all day.
The first part of this bbc4 series v good imho.
Lots of clips and links at the website
www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/lefties.shtml
Lots of clips and links at the website
www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/lefties.shtml
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
well.
i'm not sure how great that was, there seemed to be a lot of vague footage of the backs of people walking through doors.
i can see why people might not have wanted to participate. it was an eclectic mix of people - but were they the interesting ones??
one thing i'm sure of is that i doubt i'll ever do anythjing as exiting as my parents.
wiskers
i'm not sure how great that was, there seemed to be a lot of vague footage of the backs of people walking through doors.
i can see why people might not have wanted to participate. it was an eclectic mix of people - but were they the interesting ones??
one thing i'm sure of is that i doubt i'll ever do anythjing as exiting as my parents.
wiskers
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
zenie said:Who didn't wanna participate?
the great many who didnt appear in the film. if in one year there were over 200 squatters int he road why did they only find 20 willing to play ball??
i kept noticing people being interviewd who'd lived there a year at most (which doesnt make them any less valid, just less subjective).
zenie
>^^<
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