Home Sweet Home at the V&A on 19th and 20th November

A curated programme of short films being screened at the V&A Museum on the 19th and 20th November. 

Screening continuously at the Architecture Landing, Room 127. 

I will be present on Thursday 20 November to chat about the programme and my community work.

 From 14.00 – 16.00 visitors can assist me in creating buildings and structures with folded paper. 

Home Sweet Home

A curated programme of short films about post-war housing and regeneration. Collectively they form a framework for thinking about the housing crisis (not enough, too expensive) and the challenge of providing more homes and maintaining diverse communities. 
The programme running time is 1 hour.

Full Circle   
Extract , 7.14 minutes, 1974
Animated film which looks at the the development of city living and the possibility of over-population in the future leading to the collapse of civilised life.
Art and animation by Charles Goetz.
Produced by Wellcome Library.

Silchester Estate Medley 1
1.22 minutes
Extracts from Development of the English Town 1942, British Council Film Collection. Photos and maps from London Metropolitan Archive.
Radio London, Big L Theme Stereo Mix from an offshore pirate radio stations of the 1960's. Community Audio Archives. 

TV Licence, Columbo
15 seconds, National Archives Public Information Films

Home
5:15 mins, 2012
Elegiac exploration of the last house demolished for the Westway (A40).
Directed by Constantine Gras.

Silchester Estate Medley 2
View from Frinstead House at Silchester Estate
1:03 secs, Photos by resident Nahib.
Music by Ewa Sikorski

Silchester Estate Medley 3
Residents of Frinstead House Dream of t-rex and rainbows
38 secs, drawing event, 1st October 2014
Music by Ewa Sikorski

The Latymer Triangle
9:09 mins, 2013
Directed by Dee Harding.
Portrait of Constantine Gras as he reflects on the complex social history of W10 in relation to his art practice.

1971 Census 
60 sec, 1971, National Archives Public Information Films

Feel the Groove
2.22 mins, 2014
Site specific event staged by the V&A Community Artist at 7 Shalfleet Drive on the Silchester Estate. A community celebration of musical memories and vinyl records. 

Nursery
11.02 mins, 2013
Directed by Constantine Gras. 
Portrait of a nursery on the Silchester Estate that has closed down and is temporarily handed over to artists. This is currently being regenerated into More West.  

Ivory Snow and Pledge Adverts, 1960s. 
Reproduced from John W. Hartman Centre for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University

Gloucester Court Reminiscence Group. 
8:52 mins, 2014
Residents discuss their diverse experience of housing, living on estates and regeneration issues.  

Silchester More West 
8:57 mins, 2014
Conversation with Joanna Sutherland, Associate Director at Haworth Tompkins, who discusses the design, building and community that is forming at a new Peabody housing development in North Kensington. 

Programme curated by Constantine Gras, V&A Museum Community Artist in Residence.
I am based in a 1960s council flat on the Silchester Estate in North Kensington. This is currently being redeveloped as Silchester More West and will provide 112 flats of mixed market and social rent.

Films and images kindly sourced from: 
British Council, London Metropolitan Archives, National Archives Public Information Films,
RBKC Local Studies and Archive, Wellcome Collection,  Ad* access Digital Collection, 
D'Arcy Macius Benton & Bowles Records,  John W. Hartman Centre for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Nahid Ashby, Gloucester Court Reminiscence Group,
residents of Silchester Estate and Dee Harding.