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The Occupation, 2001 (15 mins)
A short film about the social cleansing and recolonisation of London’s East End. In part based on interviews with the following: Writer, Iain Sinclair; Professor Anne Power of the LSE; Kevin Sugrue, Head of the Hackney Regeneration Agency, Renaisi; Hackney based community activist, Peter Sutton; and some very amusing estate agents (details on application)

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The London Particular, 2004 (30 mins)
Part 1 of a full-length film about the strange, neoliberal ‘renaissance’ of East London. This is a rough edit tracing the renewal of the city from the gentrification of Shoreditch, through the looting of social housing in Hackney, to the sordid reconfiguration of life, death and work on the fringe of the City of London

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