Tickets
Standard - £6
Conc. - Pay What You Can*
Doors 7.00 PM
Film 7.30 PM
dir. ANDREA LUKA ZIMMERMAN AND ADRIAN JACKSON
country. UK
year. 2019
runtime. 87 MINS
rating. 18
They say freedom's only possible when there's nothing left to lose. But what, in the end, is the real
cost of living?
In a city framed by capital and loss, ten unruly Londoners navigate their wild and wayward way,
travelling on their own terms towards a co-existence far stronger than 'community'. On reclaimed
land they find themselves on the right side of history , caught between two train tracks, the present
tense and future hopes. They question who has stolen what from whom, and how things might be
fixed, in an often contradictory rite of passage. Finding solidarity in resistance, they demand the
right to go on.
An uncommon story told on common ground, Here for Life dances with a spirited grace and
urgency, hovering between fiction and fact, attention and act.
Sometimes we simply need to hear our stories told by someone else...
Event Details
Andrea Luka Zimmerman said: “For me what is most valuable is the sense of a creative and collaborative waywardness and unpredictability in the film: that tenderness and tension co-exist, often in the same moment, feels to me something true to our shared experience.”
Adrian Jackson said: “If this film tells us anything about London today, it’s that there are many unconsidered lives surviving against the odds. It feels important to tell these kinds of stories today – to hear from people who are often ‘othered’ in a variety of ways - to show a world we don’t see enough of.”
“It’s hard to forget the weathered faces of Here for Life. They may have been abandoned by progress, but never by art. In so many ways, the film becomes a mosaic of
their experiences, producing the kind of raw, frayed vulnerability one might associate with the cinema of Claire Denis.
”
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