GB 2016 | Director: Sarah Turner | Colour | DCP | 96 min | english OV
Public House tells the story of the Ivy House Pub in Peckham. Slated to be sold to property developers in 2012, the local community triumphantly came together to save the pub from closure. This documentary is an inspirational story of social resilience and the power of communities working together. Made in collaboration with some of the many users of the pub, the film features their voices, poems and performances, as well as key moments in the community takeover which led the Ivy House to become one of the UK’s first co-operatively owned pubs and the country’s first‘asset of community value’. Through dance, poetry and song the film builds into an exhilarating participatory opera of multi-layered voices telling a tale of social resilience in the face of creeping gentrification. (BFI London Film Festival)
| Acronyms | |
|---|---|
| amer. | American English |
| b/w | Black and white |
| OV | Original version |
| SUB | Subtitles |
| +SUB | electronic live subtitling (below the image) |
| INT | Intertitles |
| Countries | |
|---|---|
| AT | Austria |
| FRG | Federal Republic of Germany (historic) |
| BLR | Belarus |
| DE | Germany |
| CAN | Canada |
| GDR | German Democratic Republic (historic) |
| EGY | Egypt |
| FR | France |
| GB | Great Britain |
| URY | Uruguay |
| BRA | Brasil |
| SWE | Sweden |
| UKR | Ukraine |
| PL | Poland |
| IDN | Indonesia |
| PRT | Portugal |
| HRV | Croatia |
| ECU | Ecuador |
| HUN | Hungary |
| AUS | Australia |
| IT | Italy |
| MEX | Mexico |
| IND | India |
Followed by a discussion with the director and Maxa Zoller (IFFF Dortmund + Cologne)
Sarah Turner is an artist who writes and makes films. Known in particular for her three feature films, ECOLOGY, 2007, PERESTROIKA, 2010, and PUBLIC HOUSE, 2016: a trilogy forming a web of concerns that are broadly linked through ideas of ecologies – psychic, environmental and social. A distinctive approach to sound characterizes these works, all three of which she sound designed and composed herself. Sarah is currently working on a sci fi/ paranormal trilogy: Zone 3. Set in the near future - and an indeterminate past - two teenage girls take a musical journey beyond AI, tech control and resource extraction into multi dimensional consciousness. Here, sound connects the ethereal and embodied, creating form and dissolving the boundaries between the worlds.
Dr. Maxa Zoller is the Artistic Director of the Dortmund+Köln, one of the world’s oldest and largest women film festivals. Maxa received her Ph.D. from Birkbeck College, where she studied wtih Ian Christie and Laura Mulvey. Her interest in the interrelationship between art and cinema has marked her academic career; she taught art and film history and theory at the American University in Cairo, Goldsmiths College and Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, amongts others. It has also informed her curatorial work for Tate Modern, no.w.here, Art Basel and the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, where she co-curated a major solo exhibition of Anthony McCall in 2014. Her understanding of ‚expanded cinema‘ also informs her work as director of the Dortmund+Köln, where she initiated artist residencies and book publications.
